On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:49 PM, <clinton.fos...@quest.com> wrote: > It was necessary to add a length prefix to the request/response > messages in order to remove the dependency on closing the connection > to know when the protobuf was finished being read. Also, since > Message.Builder.mergeFrom() expects to be able to read the InputStream > to the "end", I had to create a FilterInputStream to trick it into > thinking the "end" was the end of the protobuf. The other option would > have been to use the version that accepts a byte array, but that seems > less ideal because it would limit the size of messages that could be > processed.
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