If you changed all the "string" types to "bytes" instead, then you should not see that error. Are you sure you did that? If so, can you write a small demo program which produces this error, even when the protobuf type contains no "string" fields, and send it to me?
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM, <saad.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not very experienced programmer, but I will try to explain whats > happening: > > I have books titles database in protocol buffer format. The message > Title has fields like: > optional string title = 1; > optional string description = 2; > optional string isbn = 3 > ... > ... > > When I convert my mysql data to pb, i use python and store it using > title_str_pb = title.SerializeToString() > > When I read back the titles in python, everything works fine. Like: > t = Title() > t.ParseFromString(title_str_pb) > title = t.title > description = t.description > > But now I want to use this protocol buffer data in c++. like: > Title t; > t.ParseFromString(title_str_pb) > > and I get error: > Encountered string containing invalid UTF-8 data while parsing > protocol buffer. Strings must contain only UTF-8; use the 'bytes' type > for raw bytes. > > I changed the string type to bytes type, then also I get the same > error. > > I have a million book records stored in pb format. I don't want to > loose my data. Can somebody help please. As an alternative I will > restore my data back using python. But I want to use it in c++. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
