## BDLedger gRPC API

### Generating gRPC code in languages

#### Installling tools

Download the [Protocol Buffers compiler](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases) (protoc-3.11.4-*) for your platform and add `protoc` to `PATH` environment variable 

For generating Go code:
```bash
GIT_TAG="v1.4.0-rc.4"
go get -d -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
git -C "$(go env GOPATH)"/src/github.com/golang/protobuf checkout $GIT_TAG
go install github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
```
(Update to google.golang.org/protobuf when https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/3435 resolves)

For generating Java code: From `bdledger-sdk-java` run `gradle generateProto`

For generating Node.js code:
```bash
npm install -g grpc-tools 
```
For generating TypeScript definitions, also run:
```bash
npm install -g protoc-gen-ts
```

For frontend JavaScript:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web
cd grpc-web
sudo make install-plugin
```

References:
- [Go Quick Start](https://grpc.io/docs/quickstart/go.html#prerequisites)
- [gRPC Go FAQ](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go#faq)

**TODO: Look into [protobuf.js](https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js) for Nodes.js and frontend**
**TODO: Look into [Kroto+](https://github.com/marcoferrer/kroto-plus) for Kotlin**

#### Generating code

Run
```bash
./scripts/gen [go] [nodejs] [ts]
```