envoyproxy/gateway

Support gRPC-JSON transcoder

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#1,776 opened on Aug 9, 2023

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Description

Description: For now, Envoy-Gateway has GRPCRoute. And in some contexts, We need to call from the client(maybe browser, mobile ...) to service. And it calls with HTTP protocol by Restfull. Can we consider about gRPC-JSON transcoder to make GRPCRoute can call with HTTP.

https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/http/http_filters/grpc_json_transcoder_filter

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Study the Envoy gRPC JSON transcoder filter and determine how to integrate it with Envoy Gateway's GRPCRoute. Look at existing filter implementations in the Gateway project.
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go
Domain
backendapinetworking
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Mostly clear
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GogRPCEnvoy
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50