Version: 0.6.x

Context and Dependencies

When implementing a server, ZIO gRPC allows you to specify that your service methods depend depends on a context of type Context which can be any Scala type.

For example, we can define a service with handlers that expect a context of type User for each request:

import zio.ZIO
import zio.Console
import zio.Console.printLine
import scalapb.zio_grpc.RequestContext
import myexample.testservice.ZioTestservice.ZSimpleService
import myexample.testservice.{Request, Response}
import io.grpc.{Status, StatusException}

case class User(name: String)

object MyService extends ZSimpleService[User] {
  def sayHello(req: Request, user: User): ZIO[Any, StatusException, Response] =
    for {
      _ <- printLine("I am here!").orDie
    } yield Response(s"Hello, ${user.name}")
}

Context transformations

In order to be able to bind our service to a gRPC server, we need to have the service's Context type to be one of the supported types:

scalapb.zio_grpc.RequestContext
scalapb.zio_grpc.SafeMetadata
Any

The service MyService as defined above expects User as a context. In order to be able to bind it, we will transform it into a service that depends on a context of type RequestContext. To do this, we need to provide the function to produce a User out of a RequestContext. This way, when a request comes in, ZIO gRPC can take the RequestContext (which is request metadata such as headers and options), and use our function to construct a User and provide it into the environment of our original service.

In many typical cases, we may need to retrieve the user from a database, and thus we are using an effectful function RequestContext => IO[Status, User] to find the user.

For example, we can provide a function that returns an effect that always succeeds:

val fixedUserService =
  MyService.transformContextZIO((rc: RequestContext) => ZIO.succeed(User("foo")))
// fixedUserService: myexample.testservice.ZioTestservice.GSimpleService[RequestContext, StatusException] = myexample.testservice.ZioTestservice$GSimpleService$$anon$5@2ded0a10

and we got our service with context of type RequestContext so it can be bound to a gRPC server.

Accessing metadata

Here is how we would extract a user from a metadata header:

import zio.IO
import scalapb.zio_grpc.{ServiceList, ServerMain}

val UserKey = io.grpc.Metadata.Key.of(
  "user-key", io.grpc.Metadata.ASCII_STRING_MARSHALLER)
// UserKey: io.grpc.Metadata.Key[String] = Key{name='user-key'}

def findUser(rc: RequestContext): IO[StatusException, User] =
  rc.metadata.get(UserKey).flatMap {
    case Some(name) => ZIO.succeed(User(name))
    case _          => ZIO.fail(
      Status.UNAUTHENTICATED.withDescription("No access!").asException)
  }

val rcService =
  MyService.transformContextZIO(findUser)
// rcService: myexample.testservice.ZioTestservice.GSimpleService[RequestContext, StatusException] = myexample.testservice.ZioTestservice$GSimpleService$$anon$5@5c0776c3

object MyServer extends ServerMain {
  def services = ServiceList.add(rcService)
}

Context transformations that depends on a service

A context transformation may introduce a dependency on another service. For example, you may want to organize your code such that there is a UserDatabase service that provides a fetchUser effect that retrieves users from a database. Here is how you can do this:

trait UserDatabase {
  def fetchUser(name: String): IO[StatusException, User]
}

object UserDatabase {
  val layer = zio.ZLayer.succeed(
    new UserDatabase {
      def fetchUser(name: String): IO[StatusException, User] =
        ZIO.succeed(User(name))
    })
}

Now, The context transformation effect we apply may introduce an additional environmental dependency to our service. For example:

import zio.Clock._
import zio.Duration._

val myServiceAuthWithDatabase: ZIO[UserDatabase, Nothing, ZSimpleService[RequestContext]] =
  ZIO.serviceWith[UserDatabase](
    userDatabase =>
      MyService.transformContextZIO {
        (rc: RequestContext) =>
            rc.metadata.get(UserKey)
            .someOrFail(Status.UNAUTHENTICATED.asException)
            .flatMap(userDatabase.fetchUser(_))
      }
  )
// myServiceAuthWithDatabase: ZIO[UserDatabase, Nothing, ZSimpleService[RequestContext]] = OnSuccess(
//   trace = "repl.MdocSession.MdocApp.myServiceAuthWithDatabase(context.md:104)",
//   first = Sync(
//     trace = "repl.MdocSession.MdocApp.myServiceAuthWithDatabase(context.md:104)",
//     eval = zio.ZIO$ServiceWithZIOPartiallyApplied$$$Lambda$13264/0x0000000103833440@2b3264c6
//   ),
//   successK = zio.ZIO$$$Lambda$13255/0x0000000103827040@4b9ab517
// )

Now our service can be built from an effect that depends on UserDatabase. This effect can be added to a ServiceList using addZIO:

object MyServer2 extends ServerMain {
  def services = ServiceList
    .addZIO(myServiceAuthWithDatabase)
    .provide(UserDatabase.layer)
}

Using a service as ZLayer

If you require more flexibility than provided through ServerMain, you can construct the server directly.

We first turn our service into a ZLayer:

val myServiceLayer = zio.ZLayer(myServiceAuthWithDatabase)
// myServiceLayer: zio.ZLayer[UserDatabase, Nothing, ZSimpleService[RequestContext]] = Suspend(
//   self = zio.ZLayer$$$Lambda$13266/0x0000000103834440@54e5a24
// )

Notice how the dependencies moved to the input side of the ZLayer and the resulting layer is of type ZSimpleService[RequestContext].

To use this layer in an app, we can wire it like so:

import scalapb.zio_grpc.ServerLayer
import scalapb.zio_grpc.Server
import zio.ZLayer

val serviceList = ServiceList
  .addFromEnvironment[ZSimpleService[RequestContext]]
// serviceList: ServiceList[Any with ZSimpleService[RequestContext]] = scalapb.zio_grpc.ServiceList@51137344

val serverLayer =
    ServerLayer.fromServiceList(
        io.grpc.ServerBuilder.forPort(9000),
        serviceList
    )
// serverLayer: ZLayer[Any with ZSimpleService[RequestContext], Throwable, Server] = Suspend(
//   self = zio.ZLayer$ScopedEnvironmentPartiallyApplied$$$Lambda$13277/0x0000000103838840@69bf29f4
// )

val ourApp =
    ZLayer.make[Server](
      serverLayer,
      myServiceLayer,
      UserDatabase.layer
    )
// ourApp: ZLayer[Any, Throwable, Server] = Suspend(
//   self = zio.ZLayer$ZLayerProvideSomeOps$$$Lambda$13279/0x000000010383f840@77931bd9
// )

object LayeredApp extends zio.ZIOAppDefault {
    def run = ourApp.launch.exitCode
}

serverLayer creates a Server from a ZSimpleService layer and still depends on a UserDatabase. Then, ourApp feeds a UserDatabase.layer into serverLayer to produce a Server that doesn't depend on anything. In the run method we launch the server layer.

Implementing a service with dependencies

In this scenario, your service depends on two additional services, DepA and DepB. Following ZIO's service pattern, we accept the (interaces of the ) dependencies as constructor parameters.

trait DepA {
  def methodA(param: String): ZIO[Any, Nothing, Int]
}

object DepA {
  val layer = ZLayer.succeed[DepA](new DepA {
    def methodA(param: String) = ???
  })
}

object DepB {
  val layer = ZLayer.succeed[DepB](new DepB {
    def methodB(param: Float) = ???
  })
}

trait DepB {
  def methodB(param: Float): ZIO[Any, Nothing, Double]
}

case class MyService2(depA: DepA, depB: DepB) extends ZSimpleService[User] {
  def sayHello(req: Request, user: User): ZIO[Any, StatusException, Response] =
    for {
      num1 <- depA.methodA(user.name)
      num2 <- depB.methodB(12.3f)
      _ <- printLine("I am here $num1 $num2!").orDie
    } yield Response(s"Hello, ${user.name}")
}

object MyService2 {
  val layer: ZLayer[DepA with DepB, Nothing, ZSimpleService[RequestContext]] =
    ZLayer.fromFunction {
      (depA: DepA, depB: DepB) =>
        MyService2(depA, depB).transformContextZIO(findUser(_))
  }
}

Our service layer now depends on the DepA and DepB interfaces. A server can be created like this:

object MyServer3 extends zio.ZIOAppDefault {

  val serverLayer =
    ServerLayer.fromServiceList(
      io.grpc.ServerBuilder.forPort(9000),
      ServiceList.addFromEnvironment[ZSimpleService[RequestContext]]
    )

  val appLayer = ZLayer.make[Server](
    serverLayer,
    DepA.layer,
    DepB.layer,
    MyService2.layer
  )

  def run = ourApp.launch.exitCode
}

Context transformations​

Accessing metadata​

Context transformations that depends on a service​

Using a service as ZLayer​

Implementing a service with dependencies​

Context transformations

Accessing metadata

Context transformations that depends on a service

Using a service as ZLayer

Implementing a service with dependencies