Lots of comments here about lack of JSON support in gRPC - while that's true, it's relatively easily to bolt on using grpc-gateway (https://github.com/grpc-ecos

Lots of comments here about lack of JSON support in gRPC - while that's true, it's relatively easily to bolt on using grpc-gateway (https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway). Here's how we did it in CockroachDB: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/24ed8df04719a15e74c29d5747224ef6987e7756/pkg/server/server.go#L994-L1008 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/24ed8df04719a1... The supporting code (protoutil) is https://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/protoutil#JSONPb https://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/... and https://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/protoutil#ProtoPb https://godoc.org/github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pkg/util/....