How to look up server?

[Srinivas Naik]

Hi,

I am new to gRPC and analyzing this as an alternative for IBinder in Android.

In Android a client can look up for server using IServiceManager.getService("service_name"); How to do this using gRPC?

How can clients look up for service from a service manager like in Android?

Thanks

Srini

[Mark Brophy]

Hi Srini, can you say more about your use case? 

Are you planning to use a regular network/http transport, or is this about the binder-based transport (i.e. io.grpc.binder.*)?

    MarkB

[Eric Anderson]

IServiceManager looks to be only for Binder, so it doesn't make sense to use it with a plain HTTP/2. You'd need to know the port the server is running on for that. But your high-level goals are unclear. So you'd have to give more background on your use-case for me to give a better reply, as you may need a substantially different approach.

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