How to generate a client?

[sundti]

I am moving on from github.com/xolstice/protobuf-maven-plugin since that project has been archived.

Looked into this plugin. Can it be used to generate client stubs like xolstice/protobuf-maven-plugin could?

[ascopes]

Yep, should be able to, as long as it is a valid protoc plugin, you can reference it via this plugin.

Do you know the name of the protoc plugin you were using? I can try and see if I can draft an example of the configuration for you.

GH-652 is tracking some work to start cataloging some examples of specific client usage in the documentation, as well.

[sundti]

thanks for the quick reply :)

I tried to use

io.github.ascopes protobuf-maven-plugin ...

It generates *Proto.java file perfectly, but no client stubs, slike the deprecated xolstice/protobuf-maven-plugin did

I suspect it is a matter of configuration, but could not find relevant examples in the docs.

[ascopes]

If you just need gRPC stubs, give this a go: https://ascopes.github.io/protobuf-maven-plugin/using-protoc-plugins.html#binary-plugins-from-maven-central

Will see if I can work out if this is exactly what xolstice's plugin is doing and get back to you in the mean time.

[ascopes]

Looks like that is likely the case. Are you able to share the configuration you were previously building with if you are still unable to produce the same behaviour?

[sundti]

Made it work by adding

<binaryMavenPlugins> <binaryMavenPlugin> <groupId>io.grpc</groupId> <artifactId>protoc-gen-grpc-java</artifactId> ...

Should have figured that out on my own.

Thank you for helping!

[ascopes]

No problem, glad you got it working!