grpc service based on protobuf multi-repo

[jihadismail8]

ok so we have a microservices project . each member of team has his microservice , and each microservice has a proto file .
now we have a folder in each microservice ( Gen ) and it has all the proto files and compiled protos as well . like this
yourproject/
├── gen/
│ └── user/
│ └── v1/
│ ├── user.pb.go
│ └── user_grpc.pb.go
│ └── device/
│ └── v1/
│ ├── device.pb.go
│ └── device_grpc.pb.go
├── protos/
│ └── user.proto
└── device.proto

this structure is convinient for git repo as sub module , what i want is to be able to separate proto files from the compiled protos , to be able to push and pull proto folder in repo to share with the team . we should have in settings or config somewhere to folder(path)_of_protos = "APi/protos" , folder(path)_compiled_protos="API/gen/serviceName" . this way we can always share protos folder as git repo with the team , and they can just pull the repo and "make proto" .

unless am missing something here you can guide me please , how to work with multi repos with multi microservies in a team ?! how to keep the proto files up to date as a git submodule in all of out microservices .

[zhufuyi]

For microservices multi-repo, if you want to share proto files with other services, you can solve it like this:

Create a public git repository (e.g. public_proto) that stores only proto files and generated go stub code, e.g. the file directory is as follows:

·
├── gen
│    ├── user
│    │     └── v1
│    │         ├── user.pb.go
│    │         └── user_grpc.pb.go
│    └── device
│          └── v1
│              ├── device.pb.go
│              └── device_grpc.pb.go
├── protos
│    ├── user 
│    │     └── user.proto
│    └── device
│          └── device.proto
├── go.mod
└── go.sum

When other microservices need to be used, just copy the directory under the directory protos to the third_party directory under the local microservice, for example, the file directory is as follows:

·
├── api
│    └── serverName
│           └── v1
│               └── serverName.proto
│......
│
├── third_party
│    └── protos
│           ├── user 
│           │     └── user.proto
│           └── device
│                 └── device.proto
│......
│
├── go.mod
└── go.sum

The local microservice api/serverName/v1/serverName.proto can import dependent public proto files.