I am new and want to understand the purpose/usage of default values in
the .proto file. E.g:
test
{
optional string a 1 [default ="test"];
}
When I create a message object and read the field value, the default
will be displayed:
test thing;
cout<<thing.a();
But when I serialise, write to a file, and inspect the binary message,
the default is absent:
string temp;
thing.SerializeToString(&temp);
ofstream file("wire_message", std::ios::out | std::ios::binary);
file<<temp;
file.close();
If the default values aren't serialised, what is their purpose? What's
the rationale for not serialising them?
Thanks!
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