It looks like Nicholaus got mixed up and thought you were a Google employee. I do that sometimes -- it's hard to keep track of all the different mailing lists. :/
Why do you need the BNF of the .proto language? Most of the use cases for this are covered by one of the following: 1) C++ apps can use the official parser implementation provided by libprotoc. 2) If you are trying to write your own protobuf implementation, e.g. for a different programming language, you can write it as a protoc plugin. This way, protoc still handles parsing the .proto, and all you have to do is generate code. 3) You can use protoc's --descriptor_set_out flag to "compile" a set of .proto files into a single FileDescriptorSet file, which can then be read in any language that supports protocol buffers (it's just a protobuf itself, defined in google/protobuf/descriptor.proto). On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kirill Zaborsky <qri...@gmail.com> wrote: > How is it possible to access your code? Given address does not appear > to be a valid public URL. > > Kind regards, > Kirill Zaborsky > > 2010/5/21 Nicholaus Shupe <nsh...@google.com>: > > See this code and its unit tests: > > http://s/?file=//depot/google3/java/com/google/hr/db/server/proto > > for an example of how I've used it. > > > > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Nicholaus Shupe <nsh...@google.com> > wrote: > >> > >> You technically don't need it since you can use the protocol buffer > >> reflection API to get at whatever information you need. > >> -- Nic > >> > >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:03 PM, qrilka <qri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Is there any formal *.proto file format specification? > >>> http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/proto.html doesn't > >>> seem to be strict enough. > >>> Something like BNF would be very great. > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> Kirill Zaborsky > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Nicholaus Shupe - Software Engineer - Google > > > > > > > > -- > > Nicholaus Shupe - Software Engineer - Google > > > > -- > 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<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > > -- 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.
