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We are close to 100 .proto files, where every may define around 10 IDL structures (like service or message).
Is there a way to visualize of of them, including references (from one file to other). For example similar to UML class diagram.
Possibly there are configurable visualizer for Java/C++.
Quote from https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview
Protocol buffers are now Google's lingua franca for data – at time of writing, there are 48,162 different message types defined in the Google code tree across 12,183 .proto files.
I wonder how they handle this.
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Working with Protocol BuffersBy default, gRPC uses Protocol Buffers, Google's mature open source mechanism for serializing structured data (although it can be used with other data formats such as JSON). Here's a quick intro to how it works.
Protocol Buffer, a.k.a. Protobuf Protobuf is the most commonly used IDL (Interface Definition Language) for gRPC. It's where you basically store your data and function contracts in the form of a proto file.
Fortunately, gRPC is encoding agnostic! You can still get a lot of the benefits of gRPC without using Protobuf.
gRPC is a technology for implementing RPC APIs that uses HTTP 2.0 as its underlying transport protocol.
https://github.com/seamia/protodot
graphviz is installed) files from .proto
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I have similar problem: I'm trying to read huge amount of protobufs and understand relation between them. It would be very useful to build a visual representation of them to see what's available and how they're connected to each other.
I've found several projects, maybe they would help someone:
Though, for me they didn't worked well for different reasons, but you can try them.
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