gRPC support

[pjebs]

Will this support grpc in the future?

Or https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp

[Jeffail]

Hey @pjebs, what kind of components would you want for working with grpc? I'm not sure what a generic grpc connector would look like or be useful for.

[Jeffail]

Hey @pjebs, closing this ticket for now as it's not very informative but please reopen if you can flesh out the request.

[Slach]

@Jeffail grpc streaming as Input + transform and grpc streaming as output will be nice feature for benthos! Sorry, can't re-open issue

something with url + proto files link in config could be use for data parsing

[mihaitodor]

@Slach Do you recommend using this twirp library that was referenced in the original issue or are there alternatives which should be explored? Are you aware of any other Go data streaming tools which have gRPC support that we could look at?

[Slach]

@mihaitodor twirp it's a grpc alternative
currently i propose use general grpc streaming approach which implemented inside https://github.com/ktr0731/evans
maybe it could be implement via "subprocess" input