The Kiosk API
This example demonstrates the use of Protocol Buffers to define and implement a networked API. The Kiosk API allows users to manage a collection of displays that are able to display digital signs containing text and images. The Kiosk API includes a streaming method that allows displays to immediately update in response to configuration changes on the API server. The Kiosk API is implemented using gRPC, which includes support for streaming APIs. All non-streaming API methods can also be provided as REST services using standard gRPC to JSON transcoding.
Goals
This project aims to demonstrate the following:
- How to design an API with Protocol Buffers
- How to run protoc and the Protocol Buffer and gRPC code generators.
- How to write a gRPC server in multiple languages (currently Go and Swift).
- How to build a gRPC client in multiple languages (currently Go and Swift).
- How to generate API clients in other languages.
- How to annotate the API for HTTP transcoding.
- How to manage the API with Google Cloud Endpoints.
Copyright
Copyright 2018, Google LLC.
License
Released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Contributing
Please get involved! See our guidelines for contributing.
Testing
Use the go test command to verify a running server.
By default, this looks for an API server running at localhost on port 8080. Use the KIOSK_SERVER and KIOSK_PORT environment variables to override this.
Run on Google Compute Engine
The gce directory contains a SETUP.sh script that can be used to start a kiosk server on Google Compute Engine.
