if we switch from netty to okttp in a non-android project, is there any potential different?

[Grpc learner]

If we are not building the Android software but regular java maven project for PC/Linux

what is different?

[Eric Anderson]

grpc-okhttp works fine on regular, non-Android Java versions. Security is different than grpc-netty, so you can't use netty-tcnative. You can use Java 9+ or Conscrypt. If using Conscrypt, you should install it as the default provider with Security.insertProviderAt(Conscrypt.newProvider(), 1); before calling grpc. Netty uses non-blocking I/O via NIO whereas OkHttp uses blocking I/O with Input/OutputStreams. Thus each TCP connection with OkHttp will use 1-2 threads.

Why are you interested in using okhttp with non-Android?

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 2:56 PM Grpc learner <x...@autonomic.ai> wrote:

If we are not building the Android software but regular java maven project for PC/Linux

what is different?

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[Grpc learner]

Hi Eric,

Thank you so much for your reply!

We have some Solaris machine, in which seem we cannot use netty, so we would like to switch to okhttp.

[Jasper Siepkes]

Hi!

We run gRPC on SmartOS (ie. Illumos / Solaris based OS) on multiple production systems with Netty with no problems whatsoever. What kind of problems are you experiencing on Solaris and which version of Solaris are you running?

Kind regards,

Jasper

[Grpc learner]

Hi Jasper,

Thanks for your reply!

The error we encounter was `Netty lib does not support Sparc64: could not load a native library: io_grpc_netty_shaded_netty_tcnative_sparc_64`

Did you encounter it before?

[Eric Anderson]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:46 AM Grpc learner <x...@autonomic.ai> wrote:

The error we encounter was `Netty lib does not support Sparc64: could not load a native library: io_grpc_netty_shaded_netty_tcnative_sparc_64`

Ah, yes. We don't provide pre-build binaries for SPARC. But swapping to OkHttp doesn't really help the situation.

If you need SSL/TLS, you will need to use Java 9+ or build Conscript or netty-tcnative manually. It's also possible to use Jetty ALPN boot, but we generally discourage it because it can produce really weird failures when misconfigured. But in your case it may be the easiest.