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GRPC

GRPC is an RPC framework built on top of HTTP/2 for which Spring Cloud Contract has basic support.

Spring Cloud Contract has an experimental support for basic use cases of GRPC. Unfortunately, due to GRPC’s tweaking of the HTTP/2 Header frames, it’s impossible to assert the grpc-status header.

Let’s look at the following contract.

Groovy contract
import org.springframework.cloud.contract.spec.Contract
import org.springframework.cloud.contract.verifier.http.ContractVerifierHttpMetaData

Contract.make {
	description("""
Represents a successful scenario of getting a beer

```
given:
	client is old enough
when:
	he applies for a beer
then:
	we'll grant him the beer
```

""")
	request {
		method 'POST'
		url '/beer.BeerService/check'
		body(fileAsBytes("PersonToCheck_old_enough.bin"))
		headers {
			contentType("application/grpc")
			header("te", "trailers")
		}
	}
	response {
		status 200
		body(fileAsBytes("Response_old_enough.bin"))
		headers {
			contentType("application/grpc")
			header("grpc-encoding", "identity")
			header("grpc-accept-encoding", "gzip")
		}
	}
	metadata([
			"verifierHttp": [
					"protocol": ContractVerifierHttpMetaData.Protocol.H2_PRIOR_KNOWLEDGE.toString()
			]
	])
}

Producer Side Setup

In order to leverage the HTTP/2 support you must set the CUSTOM test mode as follow.

Maven
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-contract-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${spring-cloud-contract.version}</version>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <configuration>
        <testMode>CUSTOM</testMode>
        <packageWithBaseClasses>com.example</packageWithBaseClasses>
    </configuration>
</plugin>
Gradle
contracts {
	packageWithBaseClasses = 'com.example'
	testMode = "CUSTOM"
}

The base class would set up the application running on a random port. It will also set the HttpVerifier implementation to one that can use the HTTP/2 protocol. Spring Cloud Contract comes with the OkHttpHttpVerifier implementation.

Base Class
@SpringBootTest(classes = BeerRestBase.Config.class,
		webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.NONE,
		properties = {
				"grpc.server.port=0"
		})
public abstract class BeerRestBase {

	@Autowired
	GrpcServerProperties properties;

	@Configuration
	@EnableAutoConfiguration
	static class Config {

		@Bean
		ProducerController producerController(PersonCheckingService personCheckingService) {
			return new ProducerController(personCheckingService);
		}

		@Bean
		PersonCheckingService testPersonCheckingService() {
			return argument -> argument.getAge() >= 20;
		}

		@Bean
		HttpVerifier httpOkVerifier(GrpcServerProperties properties) {
			return new OkHttpHttpVerifier("localhost:" + properties.getPort());
		}

	}
}

Consumer Side Setup

Example of GRPC consumer side test. Due to the unusual behaviour of the GRPC server side, the stub is unable to return the grpc-status header in the proper moment. This is why we need to manually set the return status.

Consumer Side Test
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.NONE, classes = GrpcTests.TestConfiguration.class, properties = {
		"grpc.client.beerService.address=static://localhost:5432", "grpc.client.beerService.negotiationType=TLS"
})
public class GrpcTests {

	@GrpcClient(value = "beerService", interceptorNames = "fixedStatusSendingClientInterceptor")
	BeerServiceGrpc.BeerServiceBlockingStub beerServiceBlockingStub;

	int port;

	@RegisterExtension
	static StubRunnerExtension rule = new StubRunnerExtension()
			.downloadStub("com.example", "beer-api-producer-grpc")
			// With WireMock PlainText mode you can just set an HTTP port
//			.withPort(5432)
			.stubsMode(StubRunnerProperties.StubsMode.LOCAL)
			.withHttpServerStubConfigurer(MyWireMockConfigurer.class);

	@BeforeEach
	public void setupPort() {
		this.port = rule.findStubUrl("beer-api-producer-grpc").getPort();
	}

	@Test
	public void should_give_me_a_beer_when_im_old_enough() throws Exception {
		Response response = beerServiceBlockingStub.check(PersonToCheck.newBuilder().setAge(23).build());

		BDDAssertions.then(response.getStatus()).isEqualTo(Response.BeerCheckStatus.OK);
	}

	@Test
	public void should_reject_a_beer_when_im_too_young() throws Exception {
		Response response = beerServiceBlockingStub.check(PersonToCheck.newBuilder().setAge(17).build());
		response = response == null ? Response.newBuilder().build() : response;

		BDDAssertions.then(response.getStatus()).isEqualTo(Response.BeerCheckStatus.NOT_OK);
	}

	// Not necessary with WireMock PlainText mode
	static class MyWireMockConfigurer extends WireMockHttpServerStubConfigurer {
		@Override
		public WireMockConfiguration configure(WireMockConfiguration httpStubConfiguration, HttpServerStubConfiguration httpServerStubConfiguration) {
			return httpStubConfiguration
					.httpsPort(5432);
		}
	}

	@Configuration
	@ImportAutoConfiguration(GrpcClientAutoConfiguration.class)
	static class TestConfiguration {

		// Not necessary with WireMock PlainText mode
		@Bean
		public GrpcChannelConfigurer keepAliveClientConfigurer() {
			return (channelBuilder, name) -> {
				if (channelBuilder instanceof NettyChannelBuilder) {
					try {
						((NettyChannelBuilder) channelBuilder)
								.sslContext(GrpcSslContexts.forClient()
										.trustManager(InsecureTrustManagerFactory.INSTANCE)
										.build());
					}
					catch (SSLException e) {
						throw new IllegalStateException(e);
					}
				}
			};
		}

		/**
		 * GRPC client interceptor that sets the returned status always to OK.
		 * You might want to change the return status depending on the received stub payload.
		 *
		 * Hopefully in the future this will be unnecessary and will be removed.
		 */
		@Bean
		ClientInterceptor fixedStatusSendingClientInterceptor() {
			return new ClientInterceptor() {
				@Override
				public <ReqT, RespT> ClientCall<ReqT, RespT> interceptCall(MethodDescriptor<ReqT, RespT> method, CallOptions callOptions, Channel next) {
					ClientCall<ReqT, RespT> call = next.newCall(method, callOptions);
					return new ClientCall<ReqT, RespT>() {
						@Override
						public void start(Listener<RespT> responseListener, Metadata headers) {
							Listener<RespT> listener = new Listener<RespT>() {
								@Override
								public void onHeaders(Metadata headers) {
									responseListener.onHeaders(headers);
								}

								@Override
								public void onMessage(RespT message) {
									responseListener.onMessage(message);
								}

								@Override
								public void onClose(Status status, Metadata trailers) {
									// TODO: This must be fixed somehow either in Jetty (WireMock) or somewhere else
									responseListener.onClose(Status.OK, trailers);
								}

								@Override
								public void onReady() {
									responseListener.onReady();
								}
							};
							call.start(listener, headers);
						}

						@Override
						public void request(int numMessages) {
							call.request(numMessages);
						}

						@Override
						public void cancel(@Nullable String message, @Nullable Throwable cause) {
							call.cancel(message, cause);
						}

						@Override
						public void halfClose() {
							call.halfClose();
						}

						@Override
						public void sendMessage(ReqT message) {
							call.sendMessage(message);
						}
					};
				}
			};
		}
	}
}