Unity: Why exclude Grpc.Auth?

[ryok...@gmail.com]

I've noticed that Grpc.Auth was intentionally not included in Unity support.

The commit below does read that it was temporarily excluded (to make something else work, presumably):

Commit: 911d7779bcf4b986f31e4d465b6d977275459b70 [911d777]
Parents: 6574f5def4
Author: Jan Tattermusch <jtatte...@google.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 4:04:32 PM
Committer: Jan Tattermusch
Commit Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018 8:14:34 AM
remove Grpc.Auth from unitypackage for now

Could someone explain what "for now" stands for in this case?

Best,

Ryo

[Jan Tattermusch]

There's no special meaning, beyond "Unity support is currently experimental so this particular piece of work hasn't been done yet."

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/39a35fdb78d533e380b04886aa1172d61ad3445d/src/csharp/build_unitypackage.bat#L42

Please note that gRPC is an open source projects and contributions are welcome - feel free to create a PR. I think the biggest challenge here

is that Grpc.Auth has several of its own dependencies (that need to be added too).

[ryok...@gmail.com]

Hi Jan, thanks for your response. I understood.

I may work on it later. I'd expect that the piece has a dependency to Json converter which needs to be replaced with an AOT-compatible version for mobile platforms on Unity.

As a note for myself & who wants to tackle it: you can build the piece straight into DLLs and it'll work in Unity Editor if you remove some System.*.dll, but you may need to replace JSON .NET dependencies with the SaladLab fork to make it work on iOS/Android.