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5701652400yesterday at 6:46 PM1 replyview on HN

so how do you parse gRPC binary? unless you have proto definitions, it is blackbox and is totally unsuable, isn't it?


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alexblackwell_yesterday at 7:36 PM

gRPC obscures the keys not the values. Enums and signed ints are sort of tricky, but the latter is just a mapping problem and the former can be figured out through some logical deduction. gRPC isn't designed to obscure request content, but for over the wire efficiency.