Django gRPC Framework

Django gRPC framework is a toolkit for building gRPC services, inspired by djangorestframework.

Requirements

• Python (3.6, 3.7, 3.8)
• Django (2.2, 3.0), Django REST Framework (3.10.x, 3.11.x)
• gRPC, gRPC tools, proto3

Installation

$ pip install djangogrpcframework

Add django_grpc_framework to INSTALLED_APPS setting:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_grpc_framework',
]

Demo

Here is a quick example of using gRPC framework to build a simple model-backed service for accessing users, startup a new project:

$ django-admin startproject demo
$ python manage.py migrate

Generate .proto file demo.proto:

python manage.py generateproto --model django.contrib.auth.models.User --fields id,username,email --file demo.proto

Generate gRPC code:

python -m grpc_tools.protoc --proto_path=./ --python_out=./ --grpc_python_out=./ ./demo.proto

Now edit the demo/urls.py module:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django_grpc_framework import generics, proto_serializers
import demo_pb2
import demo_pb2_grpc


class UserProtoSerializer(proto_serializers.ModelProtoSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        proto_class = demo_pb2.User
        fields = ['id', 'username', 'email']


class UserService(generics.ModelService):
    queryset = User.objects.all()
    serializer_class = UserProtoSerializer


urlpatterns = []
def grpc_handlers(server):
    demo_pb2_grpc.add_UserControllerServicer_to_server(UserService.as_servicer(), server)

That's it, we're done!

$ python manage.py grpcrunserver --dev

You can now run a gRPC client to access the service:

with grpc.insecure_channel('localhost:50051') as channel:
    stub = demo_pb2_grpc.UserControllerStub(channel)
    for user in stub.List(demo_pb2.UserListRequest()):
        print(user, end='')