Ability to write own transport layer in C#

[mika...@gmail.com]

Hello !

I am looking for possibility to write custom 'channel' of communication in C#. I need to use grpc over something else than HTTP. Is there any possibility to write own Server ? I found that there is ChannelBase class but I could not find anything like that for Server class.

Mikart

[Nicolas Noble]

We currently do not have any pluggable transport layer exposed, no. 

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[Jan Tattermusch]

Out of curiosity, what transport layer are you interested in?

The simple answer is no, this is not possible in C#.

A longer answer is there are 2 theoretical possibilities, but unless you're ready to basically maintain your own fork of gRPC, I certainly wouldn't recommend any of them:

1. you could write your own transport layer in C/C++ (expert level stuff), add it to C-core library and use it from the C# wrapping layer (after building your own custom nuget)

2. you could use Grpc.Core.Api to implement the gRPC C# public API yourself and create a custom C# "channel" that will do whatever you want. (this is basically what the grpc/grpc-dotnet project has done). Note that this approach basically means you're rewriting the entire gRPC implementation yourself, so definitely not recommended.

[mika...@gmail.com]

I want to make it work with serial port to communicate with my academic project