It sounds like L is just a proxy in that case. You use the relay_request if
that feels natural to you. You can also do "L7 load balancing" by relaying
requests at the HTTP/2 or gRPC level. I have made an example
service-agnostic gRPC proxy in Java
<https://github.com/ejona86/grpc-java/blob/grpc-proxy/examples/src/main/java/io/grpc/examples/grpcproxy/GrpcProxy.java>.
My example proxies everything, but it is possible to also proxy only
services or methods. I think you can do semi-similar things in other
languages, although the difficulty may vary.

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:40 AM 'Carl Mastrangelo' via grpc.io <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, this is possible.  You'll need to implement some unpacking scheme on
> L, but it can then forward the raw bytes of the request.   Note that if you
> are  using Proto, you may not be able to use all the generated stub code.
>  If C, L, and R all know about the same message types, then you can use the
> proto stubs.
>
> Note also that the headers will need to be captured from C->L, and the
> response trailers from R->L.    If you wanted this to be "delayed" in any
> way, it may get more tricky.
>
> On Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 12:52:29 AM UTC-8, [email protected]
> wrote:
>>
>> Consider a grpc client C, and servers L & R (local & remote).
>> Servers L & R are connected. Client C can reach only server L.
>>
>> Client C needs to send a request to server R.
>>
>> Can I create a "relay_request" message that server L will support, where
>> the body is the request to send to server R? (also dealing with relaying
>> the reply)
>>
>> Is there anything better I can do for such a scenario?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>>
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