WIP: tonic::Codec for rust-protobuf gRPC

[kriswuollett]

Requires stepancheg/rust-protobuf#688 along with other changes to follow.

[havok4u]

Any progress on this and #688? Cause I still see the issue.

[kriswuollett]

Any progress on this and #688? Cause I still see the issue.

No. I think I should close the pull request and this issue. I really haven't looked at it since I filed them. The thing that changed during first part of 2024 is that Google is, more or less, taking over the tonic project for reasons as described in https://groups.google.com/g/grpc-io/c/ExbWWLaGHjI/m/TJssglLiBgAJ?pli=1. I believe that implies making feature complete protobuf versions... so prost too... thereby my assumption is that rust-protobuf's feature set may be eclipsed by end of the year if we are lucky.

I believe developers should rally around Google's efforts with tonic/prost since that may be our best hope of getting a full implementation with perhaps some fully paid engineers working on it full time.

[havok4u]

Thanks, I'll wait to see what comes down the pike. I have a work around working for now.