Hello all; I need to serialize a protobuf message to a string so that it can be passed outside my program. The below fails, I'm guessing due to UTF8 encoding issues:
byte[] arr = msg.toByteArray(); String str = new String(arr); // ... pass str around ... MsgType msg2 = MsgType.parseFrom(str.getBytes()); // <-- throws InvalidProtocolBufferException So, reading the API, I thought I should use ByteStrings, with their handy UTF8 encoding methods, but this doesn't work either: ByteString bs = msg.toByteString(); String str = bs.toStringUtf8(); // ... pass str around ... ByteString bs2 = ByteString.copyFromUtf8(str); MsgType msg2 = MsgType.parseFrom(bs2); // <-- Still throws exception What am I doing wrong? What's the best way to do java string serialization of protobuf messages? Thanks in advance, Will -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@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.
