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@gnossen gnossen commented Oct 4, 2019

This PR is a an example illustrating a proposal for how to handle distributed context within the gRPC Python asyncio API.

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gnossen commented Oct 4, 2019

CC @liyanhui1228 For an opinion on how this looks from the perspective of a contributor to OpenCensus.
CC @rnburn For the same from Opentracing.

See #1 (comment) and the following conversation for context on this discussion.

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CC @liyanhui1228 For an opinion on how this looks from the perspective of a contributor to OpenCensus.
CC @rnburn For the same from Opentracing.

See #1 (comment) and the following conversation for context on this discussion.

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# NOTE: The return type here closely mirrors the original
# GenericClientInterceptor interface. We may want to clean it up.
def intercept_call(client_call_details: grpc.aio.ClientCallDetails,
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async?

client_call_details.credentials)
return new_client_call_details, request_generator, None

return grpc.aio.generic_client_interceptor(intercept_call)
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just asking, generic_client_interceptor would provide a way for creating an interceptor without needing to implement a derivated interceptor class? does it exist in the current API?


async def CreateUser(self,
request: user_pb2.CreateUserRequest,
context: grpc.aio.ServicerContext):
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It would be nice to have also an example of how the timeout could be modified by the server evaluating the timeout provided by the context, for making a decision if the timeout needs to be modified or if it does not exist adding it.

stack from server to client. But without middleware installed, *nothing* is
propagated by default, except timeout and cancellation, which are handled by the
gRPC library itself using `ContextVar` objects managed by the `gRPC` library
itself.
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we are on the same page!

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