can I use grpcurl to test a stream endpoint

Question

Is it possible to test a streaming grpc endpoint using the grpcurl client tool. So far I have found How to upload an image in chunks with client-side streaming gRPC using grpcurl, however this was confusing, is there some other way to get this done?

Answer 1

Pass '@' as the data string to invoke a stdin-based message stream.

For example:

grpcurl \
 -plaintext \
 -proto ./my_service.proto \
 -d '@' \
 host:port \
 Service/Method

Answer 2

According to the documentation https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl you could do it

grpcurl supports all kinds of RPC methods, including streaming methods. You can even operate bi-directional streaming methods interactively by running grpcurl from an interactive terminal and using stdin as the request body!