package grpchelloserver; import com.example.grpc.GreetingServiceGrpc; import com.example.grpc.GreetingServiceOuterClass.*; import io.grpc.ManagedChannel; import io.grpc.ManagedChannelBuilder; import io.grpc.stub.StreamObserver; import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; public class GreetingServiceClient { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { System.out.println("Trying to call greeting synchronous method:\n"); synchronousCall(); System.out.println("\n...Done!"); System.out.println("--------------"); System.out.println("Now calling streamGreeting asynchronous method:\n"); asynchronousStreamCall(); System.out.println("\n...Done!"); } //calling a synchronous rpc operation public static void synchronousCall(){ //plaintext channel on the address (ip/port) which offers the GreetingService service final ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forTarget("localhost:8080").usePlaintext(true).build(); //creating a blocking stub on the channel GreetingServiceGrpc.GreetingServiceBlockingStub stub = GreetingServiceGrpc.newBlockingStub(channel); //creating the HelloResponse object which will be provided as input to the RPC method HelloRequest request = HelloRequest.newBuilder().setName("Pippo").build(); //calling the method. it returns an instance of HelloResponse HelloResponse response = stub.greeting(request); //printing the answer System.out.println(response.getGreeting()); //closing the channel channel.shutdown(); } //calling an asynchronous method based on stream public static void asynchronousStreamCall() throws InterruptedException { //plaintext channel on the address (ip/port) which offers the GreetingService service final ManagedChannel channel = ManagedChannelBuilder.forTarget("localhost:8080").usePlaintext(true).build(); //creating an asynchronous stub on the channel GreetingServiceGrpc.GreetingServiceStub stub = GreetingServiceGrpc.newStub(channel); //creating the HelloResponse object which will be provided as input to the RPC method HelloRequest request = HelloRequest.newBuilder().setName("Pippo").build(); //calling the RPC method. since it is asynchronous, we need to define handlers stub.streamGreeting(request, new StreamObserver() { //this hanlder takes care of each item received in the stream public void onNext(HelloResponse helloResponse) { //each item is just printed System.out.println(helloResponse.getGreeting()); } //if there are some errors, this method will be called public void onError(Throwable throwable) { System.out.println("Error! "+throwable.getMessage()); } //when the stream is completed (the server called "onCompleted") just close the channel public void onCompleted() { channel.shutdownNow(); } }); //you need this. otherwise the method will terminate before that answers from the server are received channel.awaitTermination(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); } }