blob: 5347aaaa39f9f32b40b15341695d841eaf7e8c0e (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
|
.. _protocol_buffers:
Protocol buffers
----------------
BuildStream uses protobuf and gRPC for serialization and communication with
artifact cache servers. This requires ``.proto`` files and Python code
generated from the ``.proto`` files using protoc. All these files live in the
``src/buildstream/_protos`` directory. The generated files are included in the
git repository to avoid depending on grpcio-tools for user installations.
Regenerating code
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When ``.proto`` files are modified, the corresponding Python code needs to
be regenerated. As a prerequisite for code generation you need to install
``grpcio-tools`` using pip or some other mechanism::
pip3 install --user grpcio-tools
To actually regenerate the code::
./setup.py build_grpc
|
