feature request: grpc-web

[dakom]

I'm not totally clear on the status of grpc-web on cosmos chains, but grpc is overall the way to go, and it's nice to be able to use the same client for frontend and backend

Is this a configuration setting on cosmos chains? Or does it need Starship to run another proxy server?

Either way - would be wonderful to have the ability to enable it on each chain (as a guess I tried just giving the ports parameter something for grpc-web but ofc that didn't do anything)

[dakom]

here's an example envoy.toml + starship.toml that works for a setup of osmosis and juno, each with their own distinct ports. Not sure if/how to integrate it into Starship, but this solution doesn't require Starship since it can just run as a proxy outside (would be nice to have it available out of the box though)

Osmosis: gRPC on 9091, gRPC-web on 9081
Juno: gRPC on 9092, gRPC-web on 9082

envoy.toml

admin:
  access_log_path: /tmp/admin_access.log
  address:
    socket_address: { address: 0.0.0.0, port_value: 9901 }

static_resources:
  listeners:
    - name: listener_0
      address:
        socket_address: { address: 0.0.0.0, port_value: 9081 }
      filter_chains:
        - filters:
          - name: envoy.filters.network.http_connection_manager
            typed_config:
              "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.network.http_connection_manager.v3.HttpConnectionManager
              codec_type: auto
              stat_prefix: ingress_http
              route_config:
                name: local_route
                virtual_hosts:
                  - name: local_service
                    domains: ["*"]
                    routes:
                      - match: { prefix: "/" }
                        route:
                          cluster: osmosis
                          timeout: 0s
                          max_stream_duration:
                            grpc_timeout_header_max: 0s
                    cors:
                      allow_origin_string_match:
                        - prefix: "*"
                      allow_methods: GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, OPTIONS
                      allow_headers: keep-alive,user-agent,cache-control,content-type,content-transfer-encoding,custom-header-1,x-accept-content-transfer-encoding,x-accept-response-streaming,x-user-agent,x-grpc-web,grpc-timeout
                      max_age: "1728000"
                      expose_headers: custom-header-1,grpc-status,grpc-message
              http_filters:
                - name: envoy.filters.http.grpc_web
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.grpc_web.v3.GrpcWeb
                - name: envoy.filters.http.cors
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.cors.v3.Cors
                - name: envoy.filters.http.router
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.router.v3.Router
    - name: listener_1
      address:
        socket_address: { address: 0.0.0.0, port_value: 9082 }
      filter_chains:
        - filters:
          - name: envoy.filters.network.http_connection_manager
            typed_config:
              "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.network.http_connection_manager.v3.HttpConnectionManager
              codec_type: auto
              stat_prefix: ingress_http
              route_config:
                name: local_route
                virtual_hosts:
                  - name: local_service
                    domains: ["*"]
                    routes:
                      - match: { prefix: "/" }
                        route:
                          cluster: juno 
                          timeout: 0s
                          max_stream_duration:
                            grpc_timeout_header_max: 0s
                    cors:
                      allow_origin_string_match:
                        - prefix: "*"
                      allow_methods: GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, OPTIONS
                      allow_headers: keep-alive,user-agent,cache-control,content-type,content-transfer-encoding,custom-header-1,x-accept-content-transfer-encoding,x-accept-response-streaming,x-user-agent,x-grpc-web,grpc-timeout
                      max_age: "1728000"
                      expose_headers: custom-header-1,grpc-status,grpc-message
              http_filters:
                - name: envoy.filters.http.grpc_web
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.grpc_web.v3.GrpcWeb
                - name: envoy.filters.http.cors
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.cors.v3.Cors
                - name: envoy.filters.http.router
                  typed_config:
                    "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.filters.http.router.v3.Router
  clusters:
    - name: osmosis
      connect_timeout: 0.25s
      type: logical_dns
      # HTTP/2 support
      typed_extension_protocol_options:
        envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions:
          "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions
          explicit_http_config:
            http2_protocol_options: {}
      lb_policy: round_robin
      load_assignment:
        cluster_name: cluster_0
        endpoints:
          - lb_endpoints:
            - endpoint:
                address:
                  socket_address:
                    address: 0.0.0.0
                    port_value: 9091
    - name: juno 
      connect_timeout: 0.25s
      type: logical_dns
      # HTTP/2 support
      typed_extension_protocol_options:
        envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions:
          "@type": type.googleapis.com/envoy.extensions.upstreams.http.v3.HttpProtocolOptions
          explicit_http_config:
            http2_protocol_options: {}
      lb_policy: round_robin
      load_assignment:
        cluster_name: cluster_0
        endpoints:
          - lb_endpoints:
            - endpoint:
                address:
                  socket_address:
                    address: 0.0.0.0
                    port_value: 9092

Starship

name: ibc-chat 
 
chains:
  - id: osmosis-1
    name: osmosis
    faucet:
      enabled: false
    numValidators: 1
    ports:
      rpc: 26658
      grpc: 9091

  - id: uni-6 
    name: juno 
    faucet:
      enabled: false
    numValidators: 1
    ports:
      rpc: 26659
      grpc: 9092
  
registry:
  enabled: true
  ports:
    rest: 8081

[Anmol1696]

Ok it does seem like the grpc web is enabled, but not exposed. let me expose it to the config file as well.
We already expose the grpc endpoint.