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gRPC Go for Professionals

You're reading from   gRPC Go for Professionals Implement, test, and deploy production-grade microservices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837638840
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Clément Jean Clément Jean
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Networking Primer 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf Primer FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Introduction to gRPC 4. Chapter 4: Setting Up a Project 5. Chapter 5: Types of gRPC Endpoints 6. Chapter 6: Designing Effective APIs 7. Chapter 7: Out-of-the-Box Features 8. Chapter 8: More Essential Features 9. Chapter 9: Production-Grade APIs 10. Epilogue
11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Sending metadata

Another feature that builds upon contexts is the possibility to pass metadata through calls. In gRPC, these metadata can be HTTP headers or HTTP trailers. They are both a list of key-value pairs that are used for many purposes such as passing authentication tokens and digital signatures, data integrity, and so on. In this section, we are mostly going to focus on sending metadata through headers. Trailers are simply headers that are sent after a message and not before. They are less used by developers but are used by gRPC to implement streaming interfaces. Anyway, if you are interested, you can look at the grpc.SetTrailer function (https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/grpc#SetTrailer).

Our use case will be to pass an auth token to the UpdateTasks RPC endpoint, and after checking it, we will decide to either update the task or return an Unauthenticated error. Obviously, we are not going to deal with how to generate the auth token because this is an implementation...

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