Support RPC payload compression about grpc-go

[bboreham]

Since this is the top hit when I search for info on compression, I'll add a link here to
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/master/Documentation/compression.md

[ebfio]

+1

[dsymonds]

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[ebfio]

@dsymonds Thanks David. Even though this comment is valid and widely accepted to support a request from another user (especially one without any reply from the maintainers), I just subscribed. Thanks for your time and helpful answer 👍

[mwitkow]

Does gRPC do automatic negotiation of compression? If this is added for other languages (Java, C++), will they be transparently negotiating it?

[pires]

Will it be enabled by default? I vote for not doing it by default.

[iamqizhao]

compression will be off by default.

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Will it be enabled by default? I vote for not doing it by default.

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[wencan]

+1

[wencan]

+Snappy

[wencan]

you can use grpc.Codec

[stevvooe]

@wencan Is there a way to use grpc.Codec such that it changes based on the request headers or would this be static at instantiation time?

[oxtoacart]

The problem with using grpc.Codec is that it operates one message at a time. When streaming results, compression would work better when done at the stream level rather than the message level, since repetition of data may occur across messages rather than within them.

[oxtoacart]

Ah, looks like there are some options now to use compression, for example https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/grpc#RPCCompressor

[pboyer]

@iamqizhao As noted by @oxtoacart, there are already compression API's. Are these API's supported? Is this issue to expand the set of supported compressors?

[c4milo]

This is already covered with the Compressor and Decompressor types, right?

[dfawley]

Yes, compression is supported now.