Questions tagged [protobuf]
Protocol Buffers are a serialization format with an interface description language developed by Google. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protobuf
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Separating generated flatbuffer/protobuf files from domain model - best practices
I'm using flatbuffers for the first time. I've generated my java classes and have tested out serializing / deserializaing a message. Now I'm thinking about how to integrate these in to my JavaFx and ...
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Is it idiomatic to use protobufs as containers within a service?
I love gRPC, but I find every step of the protobuf process rather frustrating (particularly in Python). Even though they are structurally similar to data structures composed of lists and dicts, you ...
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What's the most intuitive way to organize a set of endpoints to fetch users and their roles in groups?
What's the most intuitive way to organize a set of endpoints to fetch users and their roles in groups? i.e.
Users and their roles in a specified group.
Groups a user is in, and their role in each ...
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What are the “scalar fields” and “composite fields” in JAVA?
Need to understand the below definition, from the protobuf tutorial:
mergeFrom(Message other): (builder only) merges the contents of other into this message, overwriting singular scalar fields, ...
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How to handle adding new field / partial data update for a gRPC API?
Assuming we have following message that will be used to update data and it just got updated to version 2.
message HelloRequest {
string name = 1; // version 1
bool is_valid = 2; // version 2
}
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Why protobuf is said to be in binary format although we write it in text format similar to json
JSON
{
"hello": "world"
}
Protobuf
message HelloWorld {
required string name = 1;
}
Why do we say that protobuf uses binary format during network exchange and json don't, even though network ...
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Options for having model, parsers and serializers for a given data-format generated in multiple languages?
I am member of the Apache PLC4X (incubating) project. Here we are currently implementing multiple industry PLC protocols. While we initially focussed on creating Java versions of these, we are ...
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Protobuf: compile specification once, use generated code everywhere?
Once written, a protobuf specification can be compiled using protoc to a variety of implementations in different languages (e.g. python, c++, go). That's great. But to compile that generated code, you ...
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Can I add new function for protobuf generated struct
I am using protobuf definitions to define message types.
Structure looks like
message1 {
}
message2 {
bytes msg1 = 1
}
So message2 has a field which is a byte array representation of message1. I ...
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Consuming external APIs within the microservice architecture
I'm writing a small microservice-based application. One of the services is assigned the task of querying an external API and processing the JSON response (filtered list of houses). Since I'm using ...
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Reverse engineering an ETL pipeline
I have a one-way large ETL pipeline in Scala where I start with protobuf schema A and end up with protobuf schema B. I want to create a many-to-many mapping between the fields of schema A and schema B,...
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Why Protobuf 3 made all fields on the messages optional?
The syntax 3 of protobuf made all the fields optional dropping the keywords required and optional from previous proto2 syntax. Reading some comments from developers it seems that it was done for ...
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Arbitrary protobuf message as byte-array over Websocket - how to determine actual message type upfront
Protobuf is nice and dandy, but it was not made with self-description in mind. Now this is totally okay if you're using a well-defined protocol and want to replace e.g. SOAP-messages or just want to ...
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Is it rational to convert protobuf into json to send it to a web server?
Protobuf is a good thing, it allows c++ devs to not bother with class serialization/deserialization, is fast and .proto format is very nice. It also allows automatic data validation. But the messages ...
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Is it possible to use Protocol Buffers natively for message passing between a Go web service and an Android app?
I want to connect an Android app to a Go web service (I have a small social network in mind) and would like to pass data to and from the web service using Protocol Buffers, since it recently seems to ...
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JSON or protocol buffer to replace the custom TCP message
Originally, We have two applications communication with TCP/IP, and both of them are implemented by C++. The messages between them are custom message type.
Now the client program will be changed to ...
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Protobuf design patterns
I am evaluating Google Protocol Buffers for a Java based service (but am expecting language agnostic patterns). I have two questions:
The first is a broad general question:
What patterns are we ...
