Ok, I can do that.
But that comes accross as a twisted way of doing things, especially
when both ends know the message format and should know when its end
has been reached...
Is there any solution that is a bit more elegant?

On Mar 12, 10:12 pm, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote:
> parseFrom() reads and parses the entire stream, so it won't stop reading
> until it reaches EOF.  If you don't want to close the socket on the sending
> end, then you should write the size of the message first, then the contents.
>  Then, on the receiving end, you'll need to read that size first, then use
> PushLimit() on your CodedInputStream to make sure it doesn't read more than
> that many bytes.
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:58 AM, marc-andre
> <marcandre.laverdi...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello all,
>
> > This is my first time using PB, and I'm already stuck. On something
> > that should be simple too... Oy!
>
> > Essentially, I send a message within a wrapper that indicates the
> > message type. From what I saw on the forums, that's the common
> > practice. I'm able to create the message, but nothing gets read on the
> > other side.
>
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
> > Client side:
> > a.AddProtectedFileRequest.Builder addfileMessageBuilder =
> > a.AddProtectedFileRequest.newBuilder();
> > addfileMessageBuilder.setA(a);
> > addfileMessageBuilder.setB(b);
> > a.MetaMessage.Builder metaMessageBuilder = a.MetaMessage.newBuilder();
> > metaMessageBuilder.setAddProtectedFileRequest
> > (addfileMessageBuilder.build());
> > metaMessageBuilder.setType(MessageType.ADD_FILE);
> > CodedOutputStream out = CodedOutputStream.newInstance
> > (socket.getOutputStream());
> > metaMessageBuilder.build().writeTo(out);
> > out.flush();
>
> > Server Side:
> > MetaMessage read = a.MetaMessage.parseFrom(CodedInputStream.newInstance
> > (stream));
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