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Features

Supported

• Generating JSON API handlers
• Method parameters in request body
• Method parameters in request path
• Method parameters in query string
• Enum fields in path parameter (including repeated enum fields).
• Mapping streaming APIs to newline-delimited JSON streams
• Mapping HTTP headers with Grpc-Metadata- prefix to gRPC metadata (prefixed with grpcgateway-)
• Optionally emitting API definition for Swagger.
• Setting gRPC timeouts through inbound HTTP Grpc-Timeout header.
• Partial support for gRPC API Configuration files as an alternative to annotation.

Want to support

But not yet.

• Optionally generating the entrypoint. #8
• import_path parameter

No plan to support

But patch is welcome.

• Method parameters in HTTP headers
• Handling trailer metadata
• Encoding request/response body in XML
• True bi-directional streaming. (Probably impossible?)