{"categories":[{"label":"Application Frameworks","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development-libraries-application-frameworks/5"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides gRPC and Google API infrastructure utilities for client and server development, now deprecated in favor of google-api-core.","skillfed_tags":["deprecated","grpc","archived"],"use_cases":["Maintaining legacy Google client libraries that were generated before the migration to google-api-core.","Understanding historical Google API infrastructure patterns in older codebases.","Studying gRPC integration patterns from an archived reference implementation."],"what_it_does":"google-gax was a foundational library providing gRPC and Google API infrastructure for building client and server code. It offered utilities like page streaming and request bundling to simplify API surfaces for callers, and was typically used indirectly through code generated from Google API definitions rather than directly in application code.\n\nThe package is now fully deprecated and abandoned. Google has replaced it entirely with google-api-core, which provides the same functionality with active maintenance. The last release was in February 2018, the repository is archived, and no further development is planned.","worth_installing":"No. This package is deprecated and abandoned as of 2018. Do not install for new projects\u2014use google-api-core instead. Only install if maintaining legacy code that explicitly requires it, and plan a migration to google-api-core."},"id":"google-gax","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/google-gax","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/google-gax.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/google-gax/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2018-02-28","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"google-gax","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Google API Extensions"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":83690,"position":14055,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.16.0"}