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Effect Community•10mo ago

Kofi

Seeking Advice on Encoding/Decoding Data from gRPC Endpoints with `connect-es`/`schema`/`effect` ...

Hello! For anyone that has spent time integrating

connect-es

connect-es

/

schema

schema

/

effect

effect

: what approach did you take for encoding/decoding data from gRPC endpoints?

A bit of context: I already have an internal package generated via codgen with the services exposing gRPC endpoints. The package is not generated with the

json_types=true

json_types=true

flag though, so the

toJson

toJson

method from

@connect/protobuf

@connect/protobuf

is not strongly typed.

Do you codegen with the flag on, transform the data with

toJson

toJson

and then validate/"narrow" types with Schema or do you have a lot of adhoc Schema primitives for dealing with all the "complex" gRPC types?

When encoding I guess you don't have much choice but use Schema to validate the data coming into the server and then painstakingly use

@bufbuild/protobuf

@bufbuild/protobuf

's

create(proto_schema)

create(proto_schema)

method to fit the data into whatever is required by the gRPC endpoint....

Just trying to gather feedback around gRPC/connect-es and effect integration