GRPC - Do I need to dispose or close the IService when I finish using it?

Question

IService service = MyGrpcChannel.CreateGrpcService<IService>();
long[] ids = service.GetIds();

Do I need to do something to close/destroy the IService when I finish to use it?

Is it an `IDisposable`? Then use the `using` statement and never worry about manually disposing the resources yourself. — Xerillio, Mar 11 '21 at 17:49
It's not, I could make it IDisposable, but I don't know if it's necessary, because I don't know if the service needs to be disposed at all... — Guilherme Molin, Mar 11 '21 at 17:53
If you have resources you need to release or dispose manually, then yes make it `IDisposable`. — mxmissile, Mar 11 '21 at 18:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '21 at 11:16

It's not necessary, the service is a thin veneer on the channel:

I also made a test creating 1 million services:

for(int i = 0; i <= 1000000; i++)
{
    MyGrpcChannel.CreateGrpcService<IService>().GetIds();
}

No memory leak on the task manager. At the start of execution it was using 100mb and at the end too.

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