On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 6:08:33 PM UTC-7, caramba230 wrote: > > Hi, > I have a question about assigning tags, the documentation says : > "tags with values in the range 1 through 15 take one byte to encode, > including the identifying number and the field's type (you can find out > more about this in Protocol Buffer Encoding > <https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding.html#structure>). > > Tags in the range 16 through 2047 take two bytes. So you should reserve the > tags 1 through 15 for very frequently occurring message elements." > But if I have a message A with two fields, and his first field is another > message who has 15 fields, and the second one has 12 fields. Which fields > will be encoded with one byte? > The documentation is talking about the number of bytes needed to encode the tag, not the actual content of the field. Whether the field is a message field or a string field or a int32 field, doesn't matter.
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