flatbuffers/grpc/examples/ts/greeter/src/client.ts

import * as grpc from '@grpc/grpc-js';
import * as flatbuffers from 'flatbuffers';
import {GreeterClient} from './greeter_grpc';
import {HelloReply} from './models/hello-reply';
import {HelloRequest} from './models/hello-request';

async function main(PORT: Number, name: string) {
  const client = new GreeterClient(
    `localhost:${PORT}`,
    grpc.credentials.createInsecure(),
  );
  const builder = new flatbuffers.Builder();
  const offset = builder.createString(name);
  const root = HelloRequest.createHelloRequest(builder, offset);
  builder.finish(root);
  const buffer = HelloRequest.getRootAsHelloRequest(
    new flatbuffers.ByteBuffer(builder.asUint8Array()),
  );

  client.SayHello(buffer, (err, response) => {
    console.log(response.message());
  });

  const data = client.SayManyHellos(buffer, null);

  data.on('data', (data) => {
    console.log(data.message());
  });
}

const args = process.argv.slice(2);
const PORT = Number(args[0]);
const name: string = args[1] ?? 'flatbuffers';

if (PORT) {
  main(PORT, name);
} else {
  throw new Error('Requires a valid port number.');
}