Any gRPC related idea ?

[Clement-Jean]

gRPC web services are mentioned in your GSOC page but I do not see any idea related to it. Is there by any chance something that I could contribute to in that domain ?

I'm passionate about gRPC and protocol buffers, I even teach some Udemy course on the subject in different languages. Would be great if there was a way I can help.

Note: I'm aware that the gRPC implementation for Rust is not an official one.

[billy1624]

Hey @Clement-Jean, welcome! An extension that built on top of SeaORM would definitely be welcomed!

Talking about the gRPC implementation in Rust. Yes, there aren't any "official" one. However, I do found Tonic and this issue on gRPC's GitHub

• Is there any plan that grpc supports Rust language in the feature? grpc/grpc#25937

[Clement-Jean]

Any mentor who could guide me through the project ? sounds like an interesting idea.

Yes there are two popular implementations. Tonic and https://github.com/stepancheg/grpc-rust

[tyt2y3]

I think there exists a very interesting projected based on tonic / gRPC called https://github.com/awto-rs/awto, although it may be inactive for now

We will still consider GSoC proposals in this topic, but 1) it has to have enough content to be qualified as a 350 hours project 2) it has to be original (and substantially different from awto) 3) at least have some community interest (please reply to this thread if you want to see it happen)

[Clement-Jean]

I think that in order to do something similar to what I saw from SeaORM, we could use protobuf options and reflection and from that we could generate some code from that. We could even generate code that is specific to SeaORM by writing a protoc plugin. instead of just generating gRPC services or Messages, we could personalize the generated code

I only did that in C++ for now, never with rust but this might be interesting. I was doing something similar to RoomDB's annotation but from protobuf.

[billy1624]

Hey @Clement-Jean, we got a gRPC example for SeaORM, see https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/tree/master/examples/tonic_example

[Clement-Jean]

The example looks great, just one question, did you guys write the post.rs in the entity folder or was it generated ?

[billy1624]

We write it by hand but it can be generated, see https://www.sea-ql.org/SeaORM/docs/generate-entity/sea-orm-cli#generating-entity-files

[billy1624]

Hey @Clement-Jean, GSoC contributor application now opens. Please submit your proposal early so we can review and provide feedbacks :)