README.md

Remote plugin execution

Note

You need to have the buf CLI installed to follow along with this example.

This directory contains example code for Buf's generating code with remote plugins tutorial, where you can learn to generate code stubs from a Buf input using Protobuf plugins.

Here, we'll use two remote plugins hosted on the Buf Schema Registry:

Plugin	Language
protocolbuffers/go	Go
protocolbuffers/java	Java

You can use the buf CLI, in conjunction with the configuration in buf.gen.yaml, to generate code stubs from any valid Buf input. Let's try it with the buf.build/buf-examples/observabilityapi module from the workspace example:

buf generate buf.build/buf-examples/observabilityapi

The remote plugin execution was designed to avoid the pitfalls of using locally installed plugins.