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Service Config in gRPC
======================
# Objective
The service config is a mechanism that allows service owners to publish
parameters to be automatically used by all clients of their service.
# Format
The service config is a JSON string of the following form:
```
{
// Load balancing policy name (case insensitive).
// Currently, the only selectable client-side policy provided with gRPC
// is 'round_robin', but third parties may add their own policies.
// This field is optional; if unset, the default behavior is to pick
// the first available backend.
// If the policy name is set via the client API, that value overrides
// the value specified here.
//
// Note that if the resolver returns at least one balancer address (as
// opposed to backend addresses), gRPC will use grpclb (see
// https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/load-balancing.md),
// regardless of what LB policy is requested either here or via the
// client API.
'loadBalancingPolicy': string,
// Per-method configuration. Optional.
'methodConfig': [
{
// The names of the methods to which this method config applies. There
// must be at least one name. Each name entry must be unique across the
// entire service config. If the 'method' field is empty, then this
// method config specifies the defaults for all methods for the specified
// service.
//
// For example, let's say that the service config contains the following
// method config entries:
//
// 'methodConfig': [
// { 'name': [ { 'service': 'MyService' } ] ... },
// { 'name': [ { 'service': 'MyService', 'method': 'Foo' } ] ... }
// ]
//
// For a request for MyService/Foo, we will use the second entry, because
// it exactly matches the service and method name.
// For a request for MyService/Bar, we will use the first entry, because
// it provides the default for all methods of MyService.
'name': [
{
// RPC service name. Required.
// If using gRPC with protobuf as the IDL, then this will be of
// the form "pkg.service_name", where "pkg" is the package name
// defined in the proto file.
'service': string,
// RPC method name. Optional (see above).
'method': string,
}
],
// Whether RPCs sent to this method should wait until the connection is
// ready by default. If false, the RPC will abort immediately if there
// is a transient failure connecting to the server. Otherwise, gRPC will
// attempt to connect until the deadline is exceeded.
//
// The value specified via the gRPC client API will override the value
// set here. However, note that setting the value in the client API will
// also affect transient errors encountered during name resolution,
// which cannot be caught by the value here, since the service config
// is obtained by the gRPC client via name resolution.
'waitForReady': bool,
// The default timeout in seconds for RPCs sent to this method. This can
// be overridden in code. If no reply is received in the specified amount
// of time, the request is aborted and a deadline-exceeded error status
// is returned to the caller.
//
// The actual deadline used will be the minimum of the value specified
// here and the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
// If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
// If neither is set, then the request has no deadline.
//
// The format of the value is that of the 'Duration' type defined here:
// https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json
'timeout': string,
// The maximum allowed payload size for an individual request or object
// in a stream (client->server) in bytes. The size which is measured is
// the serialized, uncompressed payload in bytes. This applies both
// to streaming and non-streaming requests.
//
// The actual value used is the minimum of the value specified here and
// the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
// If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
// If neither is set, then the built-in default is used.
//
// If a client attempts to send an object larger than this value, it
// will not be sent and the client will see an error.
// Note that 0 is a valid value, meaning that the request message must
// be empty.
'maxRequestMessageBytes': number,
// The maximum allowed payload size for an individual response or object
// in a stream (server->client) in bytes. The size which is measured is
// the serialized, uncompressed payload in bytes. This applies both
// to streaming and non-streaming requests.
//
// The actual value used is the minimum of the value specified here and
// the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
// If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
// If neither is set, then the built-in default is used.
//
// If a server attempts to send an object larger than this value, it
// will not be sent, and the client will see an error.
// Note that 0 is a valid value, meaning that the response message must
// be empty.
'maxResponseMessageBytes': number
}
]
}
```
Note that new per-method parameters may be added in the future as new
functionality is introduced.
# Architecture
A service config is associated with a server name. The [name resolver](naming.md)
plugin, when asked to resolve a particular server
name, will return both the resolved addresses and the service config.
TODO(roth): Design how the service config will be encoded in DNS.
# APIs
The service config is used in the following APIs:
- In the resolver API, used by resolver plugins to return the service
config to the gRPC client.
- In the gRPC client API, where users can query the channel to obtain
the service config associated with the channel (for debugging
purposes).
- In the gRPC client API, where users can set the service config
explicitly. This is intended for use in unit tests.
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