grpc-C# CodeFirst like EF?

[Yingting Xu]

Hello,

I love the Entity Framework code first feature. I know, C# code will be generated by using protoc base *.proto file.

But, I more love to def *.proto file, and then coding my C# code rather than generate it. 

how to do that?

thanks very much!

yinting

[Wolfgang Grieskamp]

I agree this would be an interesting addition to GRPC, in multiple languages.

Such a feature should in my opinion support round tripping, such that you can start with annotated code, generate proto from it, but also take the proto and modify it and inject the changes back into the code. Not sure whether the Entity framework does this, but older frameworks like in WCF/WSDL used to do so to some extent. It's based on isolating user written and generated stub code via sub-classing.

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[Jan Tattermusch]

Well, https://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/ might be somewhat similar to what you are talking about. Basically, it allows you to serialize POCO classes into protobuf wire format based on field annotations. Nevertheless, protobuf-net is not supported by gRPC. For various reasons, we rather support 

https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/csharp

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:59 AM, Yingting Xu <w...@xyting.org> wrote:

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