Hi all -- I have a system that has a large number of read and writes that is storing messages as protocol buffers.
All was working well, until I recently started noticing some corrupt (I'm assuming they're corrupt at least) protocol buffers. This is giving me some exceptions like this: com.google.protobuf.InvalidProtocolBufferException: While parsing a protocol message, the input ended unexpectedly in the middle of a field. This could mean either than the input has been truncated or that an embedded message misreported its own length. My question is -- can anything be done to retrieve part of the file? It would be nice to know at which point in the file the problematic message occurred, and then I could crop to that point or do some manual exception -- but unfortunately this exception is very general. I find it hard to believe that a single mis-saved bit makes the whole file worthless. I also find it curious that the source provides no way (that I can tell) to get at any lower level data in the p.b. since whenever I try to do anything with it it throws an exception. Best I can tell I will have to write from scratch my own code to decode the p.b. file. Has anyone found a better way to deal with this? Thanks so much -J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
