RPC w/ nanoPb

[Spencer Barrett]

I am completing a RPC wrapper on top of nanoPb.  I looked and did not see anyone doing this?  Has this not been done yet?

From the .protoc file I am auto-generating the "C" code that creates:

 1) function to unpack a message header and get msg ID

 2) dispatch function that calls the that message's pb-decoder function

 3) Decoder that extracts arguments and calls the RPC stub function

 4) RPC stub function return results are packed via nano-pb into a reply message wrapped with a reply header

The host code to talk to the target leverages the GRPC framework to serialize/serialize messages. Just have to add header to message and send it out BLE/RS-232 port & then uses GRPC classes to decode msg.

[Petteri Aimonen]

Hi,

> I am completing a RPC wrapper on top of nanoPb. I looked and did not see
> anyone doing this? Has this not been done yet?

It's a quite common thing to do RPC with protobufs, but so far there
isn't a reusable RPC library on top of nanopb.

There is some action here:
https://github.com/nanopb/nanopb/pull/248

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Petteri

[Spencer Barrett]

That is from 18 months ago... so looks like project has been idle since then?

  -Spencer

[Petteri Aimonen]

Hi,

> That is from 18 months ago... so looks like project has been idle since
> then?

Well, the latest comments there are just from week ago. But yeah, people
have lot of stuff competing for their time.

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Petteri