grpc-requests 0.1.21
grpc for Humans. grpc reflection support client
License: Apache License 2.0
Requires Python: >=3.9

# grpc_requests

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## GRPC for Humans

Leverage [reflection](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/server-reflection.md)
to interact with GRPC in a familiar manner for users of the [requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) library.

```python
from grpc_requests import Client

client = Client.get_by_endpoint("localhost:50051")
assert client.service_names == ["helloworld.Greeter"]

request_data = {"name": "sinsky"}
say_hello_response = client.request("helloworld.Greeter", "SayHello", request_data)
assert say_hello_response ==  {"message":"Hello sinsky!"}
```

## Features

- Create a client easily when connecting to servers implementing grpc reflection
- Still support creating a client from stubs when reflection isn't available
- All unary and stream methods supported
- TLS and compression connections supported
- AsyncIO API supported

## Install

```shell script
pip install grpc_requests
```

## Usage

In short:

Instantiate a client using the URL of a GRPC server and any authentication
credentials you may need. If the server utilizes SSL (and it probably does)
make sure to toggle that flag.

```python
from grpc_requests import Client

metadata = [("authorization", "bearer my.cool.jwt")]
client = Client.get_by_endpoint("cool.servers.arecool:443", ssl=True, metadata=metadata)
```

The [examples page](./src/examples/README.md) provides more thorough examples of
usage scenarioes, and the [unit tests](./src/tests/) are also a useful reference point.

## Contributing

Contributions from the community are welcomed and greatly appreciated.

Before opening a PR, running `python -m nox` can be used to ensure the contribution passes
linting and unit test checks for all supported versions of Python and protobuf.
You can also run [complexity.sh](./complexity.sh) to use
[radon](https://pypi.org/project/radon/) to look at the cyclomatic complexity,
maintainability index, and Halstead effort and difficulty of files.

PRs should be targeted to merge with the `develop` branch. When opening a PR,
please assign it to a maintainer for review. The maintainers will take it from
there.

## Compatibility

`grpc_requests` currently does its best to support versions of Python and
protobuf that are within their support lifetimes. You may find that other versions
of dependencies work with the library, but this should be treated as a happy accident.

For Python, we target versions that are in the security and bugfix phases.
For protobuf, we target versions that in their public support phase.

[Python's support matrix](https://devguide.python.org/versions/)
[Protobuf's support matrix](https://protobuf.dev/support/version-support/#python)

### Protobuf Compatibility

The maintainers of `grpc_requests` have found that protobuf `4.25.4` is not compatible
with verisons `>=1.66.0` of both `grpcio` and `grpcio-reflection`. If your use case
needs `4.25.4` of protobuf, we recommend sticking to verison `1.65.x` of `grpcio` and
`grpcio-reflection`.

The maintainers have also noted that under Python `3.13` `grpc_requests` will work
only with protobuf version `5.29.4` and above.


## Questions, Comments, Issues?

For questions, please start a conversation on the [discussions page](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/discussions)!

For feature requests or bugs, please open an [issue](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/issues) and assign it the appropriate tag.

## Maintainers

- sinsky - [wesky93](https://github.com/wesky93)
- Wayne Manselle - [ViridianForge](https://viridianforge.tech)
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# ChangeLog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [0.1.21](https://github.com/grpc-requests/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.21) - 2025-03-22

### Fixed

- Added support for Async Iterators in Async Clients
- Set default for asyncio fixture loop scope
- Updated dependency versions
- Corrected documentation

## [0.1.20](https://github.com/grpc-requests/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.20) - 2024-08-15

### Added

- Noxfile for testing combinations of supported versions Python and protobuf
- Specifications around support targets for Python and protobuf for the library

### Fixed

- Fixed a bug wherein attempting to retrieve a dependency of a FileDescriptor could
  result thrown an exception if the dependency was not being served via reflection by
  the server.

## [0.1.19](https://github.com/grpc-requests/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.19) - 2024-07-18

### Added

- Tools for developers to measure complexity of the code base
- Integrations with mypy

### Removed

Support for Python 3.7

## [0.1.18](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.18) - 2024-05-18

### Added

- Support for lazy loading of services in async clients

## [0.1.17](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.17) - 2024-04-22

### Added

- Support for custom message parsing in both async and sync clients

### Removed

- Removed singular FileDescriptor getter methods and Method specific field descriptor
  methods as laid out previously.

## [0.1.16](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.16) - 2024-03-03

### Added

- Additional usage examples

### Fixed

- Put deprecation warnings in the correct place for old get_descriptor methods, so they do not warn at all times.

## [0.1.15](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.15) - 2024-02-17

### Added

- Add methods to return FileDescriptors and their transistive dependencies as requested by either a name or symbol
- Add option to skip automatic checking of method availability

### Deprecated

- Due to the possibility of transient dependencies being missed, or other name or symbol collisions, methods to access singular FileDescriptors are deprecated and will be removed in version 0.1.17
- The method to retrieve fields of a method's descriptor input type alone will be removed in version 0.1.17

## [0.1.14](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.14) - 2024-01-06

### Added

- MethodMetaData accessible to clients
- MethodDescriptors accessible via MethodMetaData
- When using ReflectionClients, FileDescriptors accessible by name and symbol
- New examples documented

## [0.1.13](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.13) - 2023-12-03

### Added

- Added channel interceptors for standard and async clients

### Fixed

- Refactored how methods and services are added to description pool to better avoid cases where FileDescriptors may be added twice.

## [0.1.12](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.12) - 2023-11-26

### Added

- Method to print out a generic descriptor added to utils collection
- Helper methods to print out a method's request and responses in a human readable format

### Changed

- Documentation revamped
- Version checks to avoid using deprecated methods added to async client

### Fixed

- Include `requirements.txt` in build manifest

### Deprecated

- Method to retrieve fields for the descriptor of a method's input type.

## [0.1.11](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.11) - 2023-10-05

### Added

- Method to retrieve fields for the descriptor of a method's input type.

### Changes

- Updates to minimum versons of requirements to address vulnerabilities

## [0.1.10](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.10) - 2023-03-07

### Fixed

- Corrected pin of `protobuf` version in `requirements.txt`

## [0.1.9](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.9) - 2023-02-14

### Changes

- Reimplementation of test case framework
- Restoration of reflection client test cases
- Updates to continuous integration pipeline

## [0.1.8](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.8) - 2023-01-24

### Changes

- Update project and dev dependencies to versions that require Python >= 3.7
- Update project documentation and examples

## [0.1.7](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.7) - 2022-12-16

### Deprecated

- homi dependency, as the project has been archived
- homi dependent test code

## [0.1.6](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.6) - 2022-11-10

### Fixed

- Ignore repeat imports of protobufs and reflecting against a server

## [0.1.3](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.3) - 2022-7-14

### Fixed

- remove click

### Issues

- ignore test before deploy

## [0.1.2](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.2) - 2022-7-7

## [0.1.1](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.1) - 2022-6-13

### Changes

- remove unused package : click #35

## [0.1.0](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.1.0) - 2021-8-21

### Added

- Full TLS connection support

### Fixed

- Ignore reflection if service already registered

### Changed

- Update grpcio version

## [0.0.10](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.10) - 2021-2-27

### Fixed

- Fix 3.6 compatibility issue : await is in f-string

## [0.0.9](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.9) - 2020-12-25

### Added

- Support AsyncIO API

## [0.0.8](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/0.0.8) - 2020-11-24

### Added

- Add StubClient

### Fixed

- Bypasss kwargs to base client

## [0.0.7](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.7) - 2020-10-4

### Added

- Support Compression

## [0.0.6](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.6) - 2020-10-3

### Added

- Support TLS connections

## [0.0.5](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.5) - 2020-9-9

### Changed

- Response filled gets original proto field name rather than(before returned lowerCamelCase)

## [0.0.4](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.4) - 2020-7-21

## [0.0.3](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.3) - 2020-7-21

### Added

- Dynamic request method
- Service client

## [0.0.2](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.2) - 2020-7-20

### Added

- Support all method types
- Add request test case

## [0.0.1](https://github.com/spaceone-dev/grpc_requests/releases/tag/v0.0.1) - 2020-7-20

### Added

- Sync proto using reflection
- Auto convert request(response) from(to) dict
- Support unary-unary