We are currently using protobuf on our project and it is great, but there are a few things we are needing to do manually which seem like they could be easily code generated and supported natively by the protobuf objects. Any chance of the following features being added in? (Or maybe they're already in and I just don't realize it..)
1) Comparison function. operator== function for C++, compareTo for Java. We use protobuf objects as our underlying object store since our application is just a means of exporting data from an underlying library. We read data in from that library, put it directly into protobufs, and then send it off. However, we need to be able to easily determine if the data changed between calls to the underlying library. Having an operator== function would solve this for us. It seems like this would be useful to others as well. 2) Helper function for enums to go to and from string (similar to how the new Java-style enums allow you to call valueOf to go from String to Enum, and toString to go from Enum to String). This would be extremely useful for us to have the capability in C++, and it seems like this could be very easily code-generated. Thanks, Tim -- 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.
