To use gzip compression with golang grpc client, you need to enable it in the grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions function when creating your client connection. Here’s an example:
import (
"compress/gzip"
"context"
"log"
"net"
"google.golang.org/grpc"
"google.golang.org/grpc/encoding"
pb "path/to/your/proto/package"
)
func main() {
// create a dial option to enable gzip compression
dialOption := grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(grpc.UseCompressor(gzip.Name))
// create a grpc client connection
conn, err := grpc.Dial("localhost:50051", grpc.WithInsecure(), dialOption)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to connect to grpc server: %v", err)
}
defer conn.Close()
// create a grpc client
client := pb.NewYourServiceClient(conn)
// make a request
req := &pb.YourRequest{...}
resp, err := client.YourMethod(context.Background(), req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("failed to call YourMethod: %v", err)
}
...
}
In the above example, we created a dial option grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(grpc.UseCompressor(gzip.Name))
to enable gzip compression for all RPC calls made through this connection. We then passed this dial option to grpc.Dial()
function to create a grpc client connection.
Note that the grpc server also needs to support gzip compression for this to work. To enable server-side gzip compression, you can use the grpc.WithDefaultCallOptions(grpc.UseCompressor(gzip.Name))
option when creating your server instance.