actix
WIP: add an example of a bidirectional gRPC call via tonic
Hi! This is an attempt to add an example of using actix and tonic together (#348) by integrating a client bidirectional gRPC call with other actors.
The proto provides an Echo service with an Echo RPC. It’s a bidirectional stream, sending EchoRequest and received EchoReply. I haven’t written the corresponding server yet, but it should be easy enough.
Anyway, this doesn’t build at the moment and I’m not sure to be on the right track…
The current idea is to have an EchoService, looking like gRPC, responsible for maintaining a connection to the gRPC server.
It accepts a RunEcho message to call the RPC and start an EchoRpc actor that would handle input/output for the bidirectional stream. Does it make sense to architecture things this way?
Where I’m stuck is how to implement the actual call to the RPC (see the RunEcho handler). I can’t find the proper way to integrate the call without lifetime issues. Any idea?
I'm quite new to Rust, so I would be thankful for any other comments.
This PR is also missing a README, which I would happily write after a validation of the general architecture by someone more knowledgeable with Actix and the general ecosystem.
If there's still interest in getting this PR in a state to merge we'd be interested. Otherwise, if there's no updates, I'll close it out in a couple weeks or so.
