grpcpp-bidi-streaming

This is a gRPC C++ bidirectional streaming example: a simple file server.

Features

• two-way asynchronous communication
• block data transfer
• multiple processing threads (the number of threads is currently hard-coded)
• safe memory management
• managed file locking
• pending request cancellation

Protocol

See schema

Requirements

• A C++ compiler with C++14 support
• Protobuf
• gRPC (needs to be built from source)

How to build

At the moment only cmake is supported.

Typical out-of-source build command sequence:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

How to run

Server app:

./FileExchangeServer [<file> ...]

Files provided on the command line are managed by the server i.e. are available for download.

Client app:

./FileExchangeClient download|upload <file>