Used the HTTP URL and it worked like charm. Now building resulted in a compilation failure, it's saying:
\GIT\protobuf-codec\protobuf-codec-json\src\test\java\protobuf\codec \json\TypesP rotoBuf.java:[2860,48] <ContainingType,Type>newGeneratedExtension() in com.googl e.protobuf.GeneratedMessage cannot be applied to (com.google.protobuf.Descriptor s.FieldDescriptor,java.lang.Class<java.lang.String>) \GIT\protobuf-codec\protobuf-codec-json\src\test\java\protobuf\codec \json\TypesP rotoBuf.java:[2865,14] cannot find symbol symbol : method newRepeatedGeneratedExtension(com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.F ieldDescriptor,java.lang.Class<protobuf.codec.json.TypesProtoBuf.Lang>) location: class com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessage \GIT\protobuf-codec\protobuf-codec-json\src\test\java\protobuf\codec \json\TypesP rotoBuf.java:[2870,14] cannot find symbol symbol : method newRepeatedGeneratedExtension(com.google.protobuf.Descriptors.F ieldDescriptor,java.lang.Class<protobuf.codec.json.TypesProtoBuf.Version>) location: class com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessage Did I retrieve a development branch or something? On Jan 5, 11:32 am, yalmasri <y.alma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Appreciate the swift response! > > Forgive my ignorance in GIT, but I've got this when I ran the command: > > git clone git://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec.git > Cloning into protobuf-codec... > github.com[0: 207.97.227.239]: errno=No error > fatal: unable to connect a socket (No error) > > I could ping the above IP without any issue. Is the reason for this > error apparent to you? > > On Jan 5, 11:18 am, Siju Varghese <varghese.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > protobuf.codec.json.TypesProtoBuf is generated at build time through protoc. > > > You can use the file that I have attached. > > > To clone the git project : > > - Install the git s/whttp://git-scm.com/ > > - clone the project from git://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec.git -> git > > clone git://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec.git > > - mvn clean install to build the project [ this will generate the missing > > files ] > > > Regards, > > Siju > > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:15 PM, yalmasri <y.alma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks. > > > > I downloaded the binaries and tried to use the test class but my > > > compiler couldn't see class protobuf.codec.json.TypesProtoBuf, it's > > > not anywhere in the binaries. Has this class been added recently but > > > was not reflected to the binaries? I also tried to download source, > > > but seems like GIT is very tedious to configure. > > > > On Jan 3, 8:47 pm, Siju Varghese <varghese.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > You could usehttps://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec. You can check the > > > > test case athttps:// > > > github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec/blob/master/protobuf-codec-js... > > > > usage. This library is listed under the google protobuf > > > > ThirdPartyAddOns > > > > wiki as "Another JSON encoder/decoder for > > > > Java<https://github.com/sijuv/protobuf-codec>". > > > > > Let me know if you run into any issues. > > > > > Regards. > > > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote: > > > > > You should probably contact the authors of protobuf-java-format; I'm > > > not > > > > > sure if they pay attention to this list. > > > > > > Base64 is the best way to encode arbitrary (non-text) data as text. > > > > > However, it's really up to the JSON converter code you are using to > > > decide > > > > > what format to use. As far as I know, JSON does not specify any > > > particular > > > > > encoding for arbitrary bytes. > > > > > > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:40 AM, yalmasri <y.alma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Thanks for the reply. > > > > > >> I encoded "Hello world" in Base64 and I got this "SGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=". > > > > >> That doesn't look close to the format I sent in the question. Here's > > > > >> the code snippet I used: > > > > > >> import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; > > > > >> public class Codec { > > > > >> public static void main(String[] args) { > > > > >> try { > > > > >> String clearText = "Hello world"; > > > > >> // Base64 > > > > >> System.out.println("Encoded: " + > > > > >> Base64.encodeBase64String(clearText.getBytes())); > > > > >> } catch (Exception e) { > > > > >> e.printStackTrace(); > > > > >> } > > > > >> } > > > > >> } > > > > > >> I'm using this:http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-java-format/for > > > > >> JSON <--> PB conversion > > > > > >> On Dec 23, 3:48 am, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote: > > > > >> > You will probably need to base64-encode bytes fields before > > > embedding > > > > >> them > > > > >> > in JSON, since JSON is a text format. > > > > > >> > Which JSON <-> protobuf converter are you using? Or did you write > > > your > > > > >> own? > > > > > >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:41 PM, yalmasri <y.alma...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > >> > > Hello, > > > > > >> > > One of our customers is still using legacy Java 1.4 and therefore > > > > >> > > could not use PB. For that we created an intermediate service > > > > >> > > that > > > > >> > > receives text messages in plain JSON format then convert them > > > > >> > > into > > > > >> > > generated PB objects. > > > > > >> > > In one object we have a field named "desc" of type "bytes" which > > > will > > > > >> > > hold a textual description of the arriving message. When the > > > customer > > > > >> > > wants to send English text for "desc" the value in JSON will be > > > plain > > > > >> > > readable English, but if non-ASCII is to be used, how the value > > > > >> > > in > > > > >> > > JSON will look like? 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