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On Apr 9, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Mike Oxford <[email protected]> wrote:

> So you have Google protocol buffers wrapped in a TLV-type (LTV?) format.
> 
> Good to know, thanks for the clarification!
> 
> For anyone writing a basic client:  
> http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/cpptutorial.html
> Substitute with iostreams fed from the network and there you go.
> 

I've been using streambuffers I wrote to access file descriptors like sockets 
for this (with some handling of EAGAIN and EINTR) to start.

> -mox
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't permanently abandon it, but it was much more fiddly than doing the 
> same thing in pure Ruby.  I have plans to deliver separate "native" Protocol 
> Buffers libraries for MRI and JRuby (at least) in 1.0 of the Ruby client.
> 
> Because it's being confused in this conversation, I think it merits 
> clarification -- the "protocol" that is used to talk to Riak and Google's 
> Protocol Buffers are NOT the same thing. Riak uses a simple length- and 
> message-code-prefixed binary protocol, in which the complex messages (ones 
> that have bodies and not just the message code) are serialized via Google's 
> Protocol Buffers.  So, while we don't use the RPC facilities in Google's 
> library, the *serialization format* DOES use Protocol Buffers.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion, we'll work to make that clearer in the wiki.
> 
> Sean Cribbs <[email protected]>
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> On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:17 PM, Scott Gonyea wrote:
> 
>> They are the same and you can actually see me plugging into the C++ code 
>> here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/sgonyea/pabst/tree/master/ext
>> 
>> But as part of an Objective-C library (called ObjFW).  So, the code is 
>> actually an Objective-C++ wrapper around the C++ PB code, that exchanges 
>> messages with Objective-C code (that hooks into Ruby).
>> 
>> I believe Sean Cribbs has some initial C++-wrapper code in his Ripple 
>> repo...  Though he eventually abandoned it after C++ left him permanently 
>> cross-eyed (I think that's why).
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Mike Oxford wrote:
>> 
>>> Be careful here..
>>> 
>>> I do not thing Riak's "protocol buffers" are the same as Google's protocol 
>>> buffers.
>>> Google's does bit-level packing and some other tricks that Riak does not 
>>> do, even though they both use the ".proto" file extension and very very 
>>> similar proto semantics.
>>> 
>>> That said, if they ARE the same, then you can take the .proto files and 
>>> generate C++ classes, and use the secondary library "protobuf-c" to 
>>> generate C structs for the wire format.
>>> 
>>> -mox
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 4:43 PM, David Leimbach <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Spent a little time poking at this today... Kind of surprised that there 
>>> was no message defined for PingReq or for listing buckets.
>>> 
>>> I realize these messages really have no usable payload, and just sort of 
>>> have a tag and length, but for completeness it kind of feels like they 
>>> should be there.
>>> 
>>> Of course I'm not a Protocol Buffers expert in any sense, so I can't say 
>>> whether this is a normal kind of choice or not.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Scott Gonyea <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> If we had this then a C-wrapper would be that much more attainable. So, the 
>>> author of such a lib would be a superstar in my book :).
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:46 PM, David Leimbach <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > I've been writing a bit of code in Haskell to push data to Riak, and the 
>>> > bindings are pretty easy to use (Thanks Brian!), but getting penetration 
>>> > at my company for Haskell is going to take a little time.
>>> >
>>> > As such I'm just wondering if anyone knows of anyone working on a 
>>> > protocol buffers version of a Riak client in C++, or if this is going to 
>>> > be something I'll have to take on.
>>> >
>>> > I've found a few generic looking C++ projects that use Boost's 
>>> > asynchronous IO stuff with protocol buffers to make an RPC system, but 
>>> > I'm not sure if any of those are implicitly compatible.
>>> >
>>> > Guess I'm just looking for a pointer...
>>> >
>>> > Dave
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