Re: [go-nuts] Re: protobuf and golang

2019-03-18 Thread Robert Engels
protobuf is not designed to match up to existing binary formats. It is a specification that allows protobuf implementations to read/write messages in a cross platform way. Things like “text” protobuf are human readable. > On Mar 18, 2019, at 12:42 PM, Burak Serdar wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 18,

Re: [go-nuts] Re: protobuf and golang

2019-03-18 Thread Burak Serdar
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:39 AM R Srinivasan wrote: > > Dont follow you. There is a way to indicate a particular field is uint16 in > the proto3 language? please clarify. thanks, srini There are only 32- and 64-bit variants, according to https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/prot

[go-nuts] Re: protobuf and golang

2019-03-18 Thread R Srinivasan
Dont follow you. There is a way to indicate a particular field is uint16 in the proto3 language? please clarify. thanks, srini On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 1:08:58 PM UTC-4, Tamás Gulácsi wrote: > > Protobuf is a data interchange format, good to publish that legacy binary > - after you've parsed