We used to run CircleCI before going open source without problems.
Now we should be moving to TravisCI as it offers better plans for open source repositories

I cannot for the life of me find an example of how to format the metadata and am simply looking for someone to pass me a resource. Thanks!

Would love to see this gets prioritised.

Do you accept contribute on this matter? We love this tool, but when it comes to grpc-web, we can't find anything easy to use.

Testing today with the latest release (1.1.1.88) I get this error:

"error": "Error parsing the request message, please report the problem sharing the offending protofile"

When loading this proto file:
https://github.com/cmagnuson/announcerdisplay-protobuf/blob/master/src/main/proto/SettingsMessage.proto

It appears the map on line 20 is causing the issue. If I comment it out or change it to a map<string, string> then bloomrpc handles the proto file as expected.

In the application not support save data of a request in a collection for to be reusable. This help all peoples than using the BloomGRPC

It would be handy if BloomRPC provides at least pre-defined variables or macros, if not custom defined ones, such as timestamp, random string/number etc. that can be used in the GRPC request body (message).

The screen goes blank (white screen that only displays the menu options) after opening proto files and randomly selecting the files in the left nav. The error is reproducible. The only way to "recover" seems to be to delete the config directory. Simply closing and re-running the app results in the while/ blank screen.

Reported for Debian (testing) using the v1.0.0 .deb package.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open bloomrpc
2. Click the plus button to add proto files
3. Select proto files (in my case, I selected 21 files)
4. Click open

The files initially loaded and were displayed in the left nav, However, after randomly selecting files in left nav, the screen went blank/ white. There was no way to recover in the UI.

Results:

1. Blank screen
2. Only menu options are displayed: File, View, Help
3. Closing and restarting results in blank screen (unrecoverable error)

The error/ problem is reproducible.

Adding a proto file with

import "google/rpc/status.proto";

and

google.rpc.Status error_response = 99;

givers error message

Error while importing protos
no such Type or Enum 'google.rpc.Status' in Type .xxx.xxxx.TypeName

Windows 10 1903
BloomRPC 1.3.1
electron: 4.0.3
chrome: 69.0.3497.106
node: 10.11.0
v8: 6.9.427.24-electron.0

When I try to talk to a gRPC server running on localhost, I always get the following response. Even though other gRPC clients work:

{
  "error": "14 UNAVAILABLE: Name resolution failure"
}

Repro:

git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web
cd grpc-web
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d node-server

Server now runs on http://localhost:9090

In BloomRPC, now load the proto file in grpc-web\packages\grpc-web\test\protos\echo.proto
And send the following request to http://localhost:9090:

{
  "message": "Hello"
}

Now the error above is written to the Response field.

Problem

When a Rpc Service has the same name as a MessageType in a different package, but is using it via imports, the client will display two different services.

And when clicking on the second service (The one that does not exist in that package name, nor should it), bloom will display a white page.

Before

After

Info

Version: 1.3.0
OS: Windows

Current Workaround

Go to ...AppData\Roaming\bloom-rpc-client\editor.json and change the tabs.activeKey to a valid key.

Steps to reproduce

Imported paths

C:\Users\desktop\Desktop\somePath

Proto Files

C:\Users\desktop\Desktop\somePath\proto\example-messages.proto

syntax = "proto3";

package mypackage.common;

message Example {
}

C:\Users\desktop\Desktop\somePath\proto\service.proto

syntax = "proto3";

import "proto/example-messages.proto";

package mypackage.service;

service Example {
    rpc DoSomeThing (DoSomeThingRequest) returns (DoSomeThingResponse) {
    }
}

message DoSomeThingRequest {
}
message DoSomeThingResponse {
    mypackage.common.Example msg = 1;
}

Add the proto\service.proto and press on the second service.

Please add build instructions for MacOS as well. What package should be used? package-linux?

So I think that add one feature to stress test or something like that can be a great acquisition for bloomRPC, what you think about that @fenos?

Hey,
thanks for you really cool tool :)

One issue we noticed:
When a request message contains a google.protobuf.Struct field, you get the "Error parsing request message" error in BloomRPC.

Commenting out the struct will make it work.

I attached a sample .proto.

Cheers
Carsten
sample_proto.zip

It would be great to have streaming response tile or append to a larger log of responses. My server moves through responses so quickly that I never see the errors or responses that come through until the last one hits.

This together with #6 would allow for request chaining. There's similar functionality in postman via 'test' tab where arbitrary JS can be run and variables can be set on environment etc.

Hi,

I suggest to create home brew formula for broomrpc.

Best regards,
Stéphane

Hey, thanks for this awesome tool.
It would be great if you can add in some part the response time of any service method.

Thanks!

Adding error Boundaries to the editor, is an essential move to allow a better user experience in case of parsing errors or not handled edge cases that might happen during parsing or during input generation.

This is more of a question rather than issue. Is it planned or even possible to support protobuf extensions?

It would be nice to see not only response body but also response metadata.
It could be useful if server provides validation errors in gRPC status details.

Need support for standard setup with encrypted channel / TLS.

#8 adds support for using specific client certificates, but this is not the same issue.

Hi, we have a proto with custom options as below

extend google.protobuf.FileOptions {
     string sample = 51235;
     string demo = 512236;
}

option (sample) = "Sample Value";
option (demo) = "Demo Value";

When i try to import, i am facing issue as Error while importing protos illegal token 'option'
It would be nice if there's a way to work with these kind of protos's.

Note : I am able to generate stubs.

Hello.
How i can save stream response in one large file? When u have many little page Stream 1, Stream 2 Stream N. I need find some data from response by id or by field name and check empty its or now.
If i will save all text response in one large file. I will have chance search in file =)
I'm apologize for my bad eng.
And thank you very much for the good application.

The proto I used is sampling.proto

There seems to be parsing error for this. Appreciate any help here!

Trying to load a protobuf with a recursive data structure in it results in the client displaying the message {"error": "Error parsing the request message, please report the problem sharing the offending protofile"}. As a minimum viable example of this behaviour, try to load the following protobuf file:

syntax = "proto3";

service Main {
    rpc Rpc(Message) returns (Message);
}

message Message {
    Message message = 1;
}

It would be great to have an an "About" item on the Help menu. The dialog box at the very least should have the version number of BloomRPC but you could also include the same information that VS Code has:

And a nice to have is to check to see if an update is available.

BTW, thank you for building BloomRPC, it's super helpful and works really well. Indispensable for gRPC development.

I have a 23Kb proto file that contains two dependencies, one with 171 bytes and the other with 9 Kb. Unfortunately I am not able to share the proto file

When I try to import this file I get the following error:

Is it possible to increase the call stack size based on the computer?

This issue makes it really difficult to use bloomrpc in an enterprise environment.

Hi
Great to see this useful stuff.
Inspired by postman, play scenarios with assertions that could be ran from build tool as tests would be great added value.

Currently when selecting a service method on it loads in one tab only. Please add the ability via a double click on the service method (or other mechanism sic duplicate a tab) to allow a service method to be open in multiple tabs.

When interacting with a third party gRPC API, you may not have access to the proto files and instead be using a generated client. Although it would be possible to reverse engineer it, it would be beneficial to support for GRPC Server Reflection Protocol where the server supports it, if possible.

I'm getting the following error when trying to import the following .proto, this is on a Mac OSX.

Error while importing protos
Cannot read property 'root' of undefined

This is my proto, which includes the service definition. It imports the file without the service definition, but I don't see any option to specify fields. I may just not be using it correctly, some usage documentation would be nice.

syntax = "proto3";

package com.someprofile;

service UserDataApi {
    rpc get(ReadRequest) returns (ReadResponse) {
    }

    rpc put(WriteRequest) returns (WriteResponse) {
    }
}

message ReadRequest {
    repeated string userIds = 1;
    repeated string fields = 2;
}

message ReadResponse {
    int64 ttl = 1;
}

message WriteRequest {
    int64 ttl = 1;
}

message WriteResponse {
    string userId = 1;
    bool status = 2;
}

Importing any proto file causes this on version 1.2.1 on Mac [https://github.com/uw-labs/bloomrpc/releases/download/v1.2.1/bloomrpc-1.2.1-mac.zip]

Release version is not exposed in the UI on linux.

Ideally, both the UI and the binary would expose version, e.g. bloomrpc --version.

The workaround is to check dpkg status: dpkg -s bloomrpc | grep Version

Reported for latest release: 1.2.1-38

I notice if I pass an int64 number, then it will be cut due to js limit, so do we have a better solution on this.

FYI, should be able to get a free Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS, Visual Studio Team Services) that includes one Windows agent on Azure that should have enough time. It also supports GitHub webhooks, depending on your CI/CD process.

I'm not an MS guy so much, but do like to see things in the big 3 platforms as much as possible.

Hi

I have two directories 1. proto 2. grpc
all the grpc services have written in grpc directory. when i try importing grpc services to bloomrpc it says Temp.proto not found. I have already added the absolute path.

Absolute path: $HOME/grpc-core/src/main/proto/com.grpc.test/proto/v0
v0 directory has all the proto which was used by grpc services.
please help me out.

Hi
Great to see this useful tools.
can you add support for ByteSring, thank you!!

Instead of loading a proto definition from file, it could be really awesome to load it from a HTTP url.
This is especially helpful when this proto definition comes from a production / test server because it is always up-to-date

Currently the UI will raise an error if the proto file contains an import that it can't resolve. Could the UI support specifying import paths similar to what grpcurl does with its -import-path option?

With the following proto file and map types

syntax = "proto3";

import "google/api/annotations.proto";

package com.someprofile;

service UserDataApi {
    rpc get(ReadRequest) returns (ReadResponse) {
        option (google.api.http) = {
        get: "/v1/read"
      };
    }

    rpc put(WriteRequest) returns (WriteResponse) {
        option (google.api.http) = {
        put: "/v1/write"
        body: "*"
      };
    }
}

message ReadRequest {
    repeated string userIds = 1;
    repeated string fields = 2;
}

message ReadResponse {
    map<string, InternalData> internalData = 1;
    map<string, ThirdPartyData>  thirdPartyData = 2;
}

message WriteRequest {
    map<string, InternalData> internalData = 1;
    map<string, ThirdPartyData> thirdPartyData = 2;
    int64 ttl = 3;
}

message WriteResponse {
    string userId = 1;
    bool status = 2;
}

message InternalData {
    map<string, string> data = 1;
}

message ThirdPartyData {
    map<string, Segments> data = 1;

    message Segments {
        repeated string segments = 1;
    }
}

The initial editor suggestion looks like the following. It seems to be an additional nesting or something

{
  "internalData": {
    "data": {
      "Hello": "Hello"
    }
  },
  "thirdPartyData": {
    "data": {
      "segments": [
        "Hello"
      ]
    }
  },
  "ttl": 20
}

The working input actually looks like this:

{  
   "internalData":{  
      "user1":{  
         "data":{  
            "key1":"zak",
            "key2":"def"
         }
      }
   },
   "thirdPartyData":{
       "user1":{
           "data":{
               "key3": { "segments": [ "891", "456" ] }
           }
       }
   },
   "ttl":86400
}

Getting the following error for a proto file with reserved -1.

Error while importing protos illegal id '-1' 

my.proto

syntax = "proto3";

....

message Status {
  enum Values {
    reserved -1;
    INVALID = 0;
    OK = 1;
    OK_BUT_WARNINGS = 2;
    ...
  }
}

....

Test url is sub.domain.com:443 on https

Getting error

{
"error": "14 UNAVAILABLE: Trying to connect an http1.x server"
}

message VerificationRequest {
    ...
    uint32 otp = 2;
    ...
}

It works if changed to int32.

Hi,
The preview GIF image in the README file is too big (41.5MB), that make it very slow when viewing this repo without a good connection.
I used GifCompressor to compress the image and it can be compressed up to 76% (~10MB, still big but a lot better now).

Not sure if it can help but I attached the compressed image here so you can use it or can just record another one with compression on.
Also, it would be better if you can capture mouse cursor in preview.

Keep up your good work.
Thanks

Steps to reproduce this issue

1. create a proto file
2. load it in bloomrpc
3. play around/query a RPC
4. rename currently selected RPC
5. hit reload on bloomrpc
6. 💥 Blank Screen.

Workaround.

1. go to bloomrpc config dir
   • on Linux, it's at ~/.config/bloom-rpc-client
2. remove editor.json
   • NOTE: you will lose all request data(from editor)
3. profit 💰

would be nice to be able to add an authorization header

For example, if I import a file called bookshelf.proto which has the following line import "protos/api/book.proto";, the import will fail, stating that an error like no such Type or Enum 'Book' in Type...