Will Elasticsearch APIs support gRPC in the near future

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Hi,

My team is exploring the use case of having Elasticsearch as a primary datastore for a microservices container based application architecture. As a part of our exploration we are using gRPC/Protobuf for the communication between the microservices. As we are very enthousiastic about the Elastic Stack, we were wondering if the Elasticsearch APIs will support gRPC in the near future?

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No, there is no plan to support anything other than HTTP right now. What's wrong with HTTP?

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Thank you, for your reply @DavidTurner.
Just to clarify, there's nothing wrong with HTTP. For two reasons the gRPC/HTTP2 would be interesting for us: first, it might open possibilities to connect to our datastore streamingly; second, we could use the same protocol in communicating with the datastore as between our microservices (more uniformity).

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