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| .. _protocol_buffers: |
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| Generating protocol buffers |
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| 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. |
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| 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:: |
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| pip3 install --user grpcio-tools |
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| To actually regenerate the code:: |
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| ./setup.py build_grpc |
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