Generate from gRPC or wrap Java?

[tabdulradi]

hey all, thanks for the project.
I wonder if you are planning to wrap the Java client or generate code from the protobuf definition (possibly via zio-grpc)?

[tabdulradi]

I've got some code trying to generate code from the protobuff, before I gave up at some point of time. here it is in case it's beneficial for anyone https://github.com/tabdulradi/zio-gcp

[mikail-khan]

That's a good question. The reasons for going with wrapping the underlying Java client are:

• rapidly develop a working zio client for GCP for a project I am currently working on
• the Java client does a fair bit of underneath which I do not want to get into at the moment (authentication, authorisation, retries, handling call backs etc...)

Having said that I do want to explore your idea more when I have some spare cycles. One of the reasons being that the Java client forces the use of POJOs. It requires this because of the way it does serialisation/deserialisation under the hood. I haven't found a way around that at the moment.