--grpc-gateway_out: 11:1: expected 'IDENT', found 'import'

protoc-error.md

If you ended up here because of the following error:

--grpc-gateway_out: 11:1: expected 'IDENT', found 'import'

And you noticed the generated Go code was missing the package name, it could be due to the way the go_package is declared.

This works for the go-grpc, if you want to generate it directly into a directory

option go_package = "pinger/";

However, the go-grpc-gateway does not like this.

This is a workaround:

option go_package = "pinger/;pinger";

However, the correct syntax is:

option go_package = "/pinger";