On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, marc-andre <marcandre.laverdi...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > 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... No, the receiving end does *not* know when the end has been reached if you don't do this. The protocol buffer format is *not* self-delimiting -- it assumes that whatever container it is embedded in will keep track of the length. > > 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)); > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
