Kenton Varda wrote: > Feel free to use the above code (note: hasn't been compiled or > tested). I guess the question is whether or not this needs to be in > libprotobuf itself.
I am in favor of putting some kind of delimited message format into the API, this is the requested feature. This will keep people from being too creative and reinventing incompatible solutions to have delimited messages. Such as the suggestions in this thread. The LengthDelimited functions are the most obvious: all possible implementation of messages must already have the functionality internally (as your code shows). So a few lines of code in the API (not the generated code files) takes care of this feature request. I have not checked if the existing API for all languages exposes enough to write the equivalent of the few lines of code you showed for C++. The most obvious use to me is reading from a continous (e.g. network) stream of bytes. The outermost message needs to be delimited somehow, currently by the application inventing more protocol rules. Cheers, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
