The service config is a mechanism that allows service owners to publish parameters to be automatically used by all clients of their service.
The service config is a JSON string of the following form:
{
# Load balancing policy name.
# Supported values are 'round_robin' and 'grpclb'.
# Optional; if unset, the default behavior is pick the first available
# backend.
# Note that if the resolver returns only balancer addresses and no
# backend addresses, gRPC will always use the 'grpclb' policy,
# regardless of what this field is set to.
'loadBalancingPolicy': string,
# Per-method configuration. Optional.
'methodConfig': [
{
# The names of the methods to which this method config applies. There
# must be at least one name. Each name entry must be unique across the
# entire service config. If the 'method' field is empty, then this
# method config specifies the defaults for all methods for the specified
# service.
#
# For example, let's say that the service config contains the following
# method config entries:
#
# 'methodConfig': [
# { 'name': [ { 'service': 'MyService' } ] ... },
# { 'name': [ { 'service': 'MyService', 'method': 'Foo' } ] ... }
# ]
#
# For a request for MyService/Foo, we will use the second entry, because
# it exactly matches the service and method name.
# For a request for MyService/Bar, we will use the first entry, because
# it provides the default for all methods of MyService.
'name': [
{
# RPC service name. Required.
# If using gRPC with protobuf as the IDL, then this will be of
# the form "pkg.service_name", where "pkg" is the package name
# defined in the proto file.
'service': string,
# RPC method name. Optional (see above).
'method': string,
}
],
# Whether RPCs sent to this method should wait until the connection is
# ready by default. If false, the RPC will abort immediately if there
# is a transient failure connecting to the server. Otherwise, gRPC will
# attempt to connect until the deadline is exceeded.
#
# The value specified via the gRPC client API will override the value
# set here. However, note that setting the value in the client API will
# also affect transient errors encountered during name resolution,
# which cannot be caught by the value here, since the service config
# is obtained by the gRPC client via name resolution.
'waitForReady': bool,
# The default timeout in seconds for RPCs sent to this method. This can
# be overridden in code. If no reply is received in the specified amount
# of time, the request is aborted and a deadline-exceeded error status
# is returned to the caller.
#
# The actual deadline used will be the minimum of the value specified
# here and the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
# If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
# If neither is set, then the request has no deadline.
#
# The format of the value is that of the 'Duration' type defined here:
# https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json
'timeout': string,
# The maximum allowed payload size for an individual request or object
# in a stream (client->server) in bytes. The size which is measured is
# the serialized, uncompressed payload in bytes. This applies both
# to streaming and non-streaming requests.
#
# The actual value used is the minimum of the value specified here and
# the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
# If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
# If neither is set, then the built-in default is used.
#
# If a client attempts to send an object larger than this value, it
# will not be sent and the client will see an error.
# Note that 0 is a valid value, meaning that the request message must
# be empty.
'maxRequestMessageBytes': number,
# The maximum allowed payload size for an individual response or object
# in a stream (server->client) in bytes. The size which is measured is
# the serialized, uncompressed payload in bytes. This applies both
# to streaming and non-streaming requests.
#
# The actual value used is the minimum of the value specified here and
# the value set by the application via the gRPC client API.
# If either one is not set, then the other will be used.
# If neither is set, then the built-in default is used.
#
# If a server attempts to send an object larger than this value, it
# will not be sent, and the client will see an error.
# Note that 0 is a valid value, meaning that the response message must
# be empty.
'maxResponseMessageBytes': number
}
]
}
Note that new per-method parameters may be added in the future as new functionality is introduced.
A service config is associated with a server name. The name resolver plugin, when asked to resolve a particular server name, will return both the resolved addresses and the service config.
TODO(roth): Design how the service config will be encoded in DNS.
The service config is used in the following APIs: