Source: grpcio-reflection Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Manuel Traut Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, python3-setuptools, python3-all, Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Homepage: https://grpc.io/ Package: python3-grpcio-reflection Architecture: all Depends: ${python3:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Description: Reference package for reflection in GRPC (Python 3) The primary usecase for server reflection is to write (typically) command line debugging tools for talking to a grpc server. In particular, such a tool will take in a method and a payload (in human readable text format) send it to the server (typically in binary proto wire format), and then take the response and decode it to text to present to the user. . This broadly involves two problems: determining what formats (which protobuf messages) a server’s method uses, and determining how to convert messages between human readable format and the (likely binary) wire format. . This package installs the library for Python 3.