Hi! Thanks for your response!

Wouldn't wire type 3 be the embedded logic? wire type 2 length delimited 
data shouldn't be parsed and just printed out.

thanks
-Barry




On Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 11:12:01 AM UTC-4 Ilia Mirkin wrote:

> I haven't looked at the decode_raw logic either, but wire type 2 is
> used for all length-delimited values. That's strings, bytes, and
> embedded messages (and packed repeated fields). decode_raw doesn't
> know when it's an embedded message and when it's a string/bytes. So it
> has to guess somehow, based on some heuristics (like how well the
> values decode, presumably). And here it guesses wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -ilia
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:40 AM Barry waldbaum
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I've been building tools to generate generic protobuf data from json 
> (yes, I'm aware I lose context, this is for testing)
> >
> > I've found a message I can parse properly, but protoc --decode_raw can't:
> >
> > \n \a 3 4 5 0 0 0 0
> >
> > protoc
> > 1 {
> > 6 {
> > }
> > 6: 0x30303030
> > }
> >
> > to reproduce it:
> >
> > echo -n $'\x0a' > binary.dat; echo -n $'\x07' >> binary.dat; echo -n 
> $'3450000' >> binary.dat ; protoc --decode_raw < binary.dat
> >
> > I'm able to parse this properly using protowire as:
> > 1: "3450000"
> >
> > also if I change the first character in the bytes to a '1' I get a valid 
> output:
> >
> > $ echo -n $'\x0a' > binary.dat; echo -n $'\x07' >> binary.dat; echo -n 
> $'1450000' >> binary.dat ; protoc --decode_raw < binary.dat
> > 1: "1450000"
> >
> > $ protoc --version
> > libprotoc 3.15.8
> >
> > I've worked really hard to keep the reproduction as simple as possible, 
> I haven't dug into the code for decode_raw yet, that's my next step..
> >
> > thanks
> > -Barry
> >
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