On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:36:18 PM UTC-7, Sumit Kumar wrote:
>
> Int32 and such will see endianness issues when exchanging messages 
> in-between cross-endian platforms hence only byte type suffices.
>
Not a problem when you are using protobufs.
 

>
> On how we achieve fixed length string support once byte type is supported 
> - Just create a message with specific number of byte elements and can name 
> it like fixed8String instead. Accessors can be added via simple plugin that 
> uses protoc insert point.
>
> Regards,
> Sumit Kumar
>
> On 13 Mar, 2013, at 8:38 PM, Giri Guntipalli 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
> we need similar thing to hold binary data in proto message, where i can 
> not use string because binary data may have the null character in middle
>
>
> On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 14:30:31 UTC+5:30, [email protected]:
>>
>>
>> Comment #3 on issue 269 by [email protected]: Would like to have byte 
>> or   
>> int8 type for the message definition 
>> http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=269 
>>
>> Re kumar.sumit: 
>> How are you going to use the byte field to implement a fixed length 
>> string?   
>> If byte can, why can't int32? 
>>
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