Add grpc-helper module

[Dentrax]

It would be great! 🌮

[yorinasub17]

Thanks for filing the request!

However, I think this would need a use case before we move forward with it. To elaborate, currently we have the http-helper module which provides various modules for making http web calls to arbitrary endpoint, and is more direct (as you are making the calls from the test process). What would be the advantage of using curl over those functions?

Separately, we have the shell module which should make it fairly easy to call curl from your test function should you need it.

[Dentrax]

Thanks for detailed explanation! I didn't see http-helper module. shell module sounds interesting. I can call a curl command directly by using it then!

As we all know, curl is one of the most using HTTP tool. If we have full curl command then, we can easily pass this to terratest in order to get result, instead of parse whole curl and headers, body, queries, etc.

For gRPC, evans is great! Have you considered to add a grpc-helper module in your roadmap too?

[yorinasub17]

As we all know, curl is one of the most using HTTP tool. If we have full curl command then, we can easily pass this to terratest in order to get result, instead of parse whole curl and headers, body, queries, etc.

I think http-helper is basically that. I think we are more inclined to enhance that library as opposed to introducing yet another way to make HTTP requests with curl. Let us know if there are limitations with using the http-helper library for your use case, and we can discuss how we can enhance it to support your needs!

For gRPC, evans is great! Have you considered to add a grpc-helper module in your roadmap too?

This isn't in our roadmap currently, but we are definitely happy to maintain and review PRs to add such a module if anyone has the need and wants to take ownership!

[infraredgirl]

I renamed the issue to reflect the outcome of this conversation.