Does Tyk support protocol transformation for grpc (http rest api -> grpc)?

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Hi Team.

Is it possible to transform http rest api to grpc through tyk?
(like grpc-gateway)

I found some documentations about grpc(ex. grpc proxy, grpc plugin)
I don’t think that’s what I was looking for

When the client sends the request in http json format, I wonder if it is possible to do grpc communication with grpc server, target(=upstream) url

Thanks for your support

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Nothing built-in for this, but there are go libraries which can be natively used in Tyk Go plugins GitHub - grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway: gRPC to JSON proxy generator following the gRPC HTTP spec

We also have in plans Universal Data Graph gRPC connector (e.g. GraphQL → gRPC).

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This grpc-gateway will create a rest webserver, so the flow would be:
“client → tyk api gateway → grpc-gateway-webserver → grpc wbserver” ?
This will add one more hop. Am I missing something ? Do we have any other solution ?