Disclaimer: I am totally new to protobuf, engaged in an exploratory POC.
Please forgive dumb questions :-)
We are looking at migrating an existing, JSON-based protocol in which
hand-coded C++ is written to perform serdes between objects and JSON. We
want to replace the hand-coding with an automated approach that can be
shared between C++ and Java. However, a stumbling block I see is that some
messages have an arbitrary field full of JSON like:
{
"name":"john",
"address":"123 main st",
"attributes":{ any JSON can go here }
}
While I realize that we could stringify the JSON, this breaks our published
API. Is there any way I can use protobuf to perform serdes between message
like this and some struct like:
{
string name;
string address;
json attributes;
}
I'm even OK if the internal data is stringified JSON:
{
string name;
string address;
string attributes;
}
So long as the exchanged JSON isn't stringified. In other words, this is
bad:
{
"name":"john",
"address":"123 main st",
"attributes":"{ \"attr1\":\"value1\", \"attr2\":[\"elem1\", \"elem2\"] }"
}
It needs to be exchanged like
{
"name":"john",
"address":"123 main st",
"attributes":{ "attr1":"value1", "attr2":["elem1", "elem2"] }"
}
Is this possible?
Thanks
john
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