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Challenge: ASP.NET Core and gRPC - Creating Messages in Protocol Buffers

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Clock icon Mar 01, 2023

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  1. Challenge

    Creating a Message

    In gRPC, each service starts with defining messages with the message keyword. A message can take one or more properties to make up the data in the message. For each property, you must define an ordinal position. Typically this is numbered from the number one up.

    Let's give it a try:

  2. Challenge

    Creating the Service

    Now that you have defined the messages, we can define the service as well.

    Let's give it a try: Now that you're done. Please move onto the next Practice Lab! Great Job!

    Solution!
    
    syntax = "proto3";
    

    option csharp_namespace = "GrpcChat.ProtoBuf";

    package chat;

    service ChatService { rpc Send(Chat) returns (ChatResult); }

    message Chat { string Body = 1; string UserId = 2; }

    message ChatResult { bool Success = 1; string Error = 2; }

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider.

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