Hi Shane, Your message seems unrelated to this thread. Did you mean to start a new thread?
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > If I understand correctly, serializing a protocol-buffer message creates > a byte-string that describes the fields of the serialized message. The > field descriptions include their type identifiers, field numbers, and > current values. > > An instance of the type of message that was serialized can then > configure itself to be equal to the serialized message by parsing the > byte-string representation. By telling a message instance to parse its > serialized representation, one is basically setting the instance's > "value." > > It would seem reasonable that this pattern be maintained down to the > level of individual fields. Meaning that message field instances could > serialize themselves to byte-strings and initialize themselves from > bytes-strings. > > I can see multiple values to such a capability. It would be possible, > for example, to partially initialize message instances by initializing > specific fields within the instance, which may be very useful for doing > things like streaming messages. Also, protocol-buffer fields could be > used outside the context of protocol-buffer messages, which may or may > not be valuable. Does this capability already exist? > > > > Thanks, > Shane > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 12:21 -0800, Kenton Varda wrote: > > Cool! Can you send this to me and Petar (cc'd) via > > codereview.appspot.com? > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Alek Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > There was already a remove() method for repeated scalars, but > > not for composites. I added one without any difficulty. Did > > I miss something? In fact, this whole patch was pretty easy. > > There must be some reason it hasn't been done before. > > > > > > It could easily be that no one had gotten around to it. To be > > perfectly honest, the Python code doesn't get very much attention > > here. :/ > > > > The docs aren't on the wiki, so I can't add anything about > > this. Are there plans to move it to the wiki, by any chance? > > > > > > Unfortunately that would require a ton of work (to convert to wiki > > markup) and the resulting docs would not be as nice. If you'd like to > > send me a change to the HTML, though, I could put it up. > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
