Thank you very much for your fast response :) Best regards, Jonny
On Jul 22, 8:04 pm, Jason Hsueh <[email protected]> wrote: > The assignment operator simply wraps CopyFrom, so the behavior is exactly > the same. Stylistically we prefer to use CopyFrom over =, because it can be > an expensive operation and = makes it look deceptively simple. The operator= > overload primarily exists for compatibility with STL, but of course you're > free to use it as you choose. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:02 PM, JonnyDee <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I've assumed the API allows to use the assignment operator to copy the > > content of on message to another one like this: > > > MyMessage msg1, msg2; > > msg1.set_name("Foo Bar"); > > msg2 = msg1; > > > My assumption was the using the API like this would be intuitively > > enough to let the generated class files support it. > > But as I am currently struggling with strange behaviors of my code I > > took the time to analyze the protobuf API in more detail, but I could > > not find any operator overloading, which delegates the assigment > > operation to a call equivalent to msg2.CopyFrom(msg1). Also, examples > > I could find only use those explicit method calls. So now I'm not sure > > if I am using the API wrongly or not. Would you mind to let me know if > > using assignment instead of 'CopyFrom' method is safe or not? I would > > have to change a lot of code if I needed to call that method in order > > to be safe. So I just would like to know if this effort is worth it. > > > Best regards, > > Jonny > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
