[protobuf] Does proto3 allow recursion?

2016-03-21 Thread Zachary Deretsky
Is recursion handled, for example: message Node { string value = 1; Node parent = 2; message Child { string key = 1; Node child = 2; } repeated Child children = 3; } or message Node { string value = 1;

Re: [protobuf] Dynamic/run-time decoding

2016-03-21 Thread Mike Trienis
Hi, Do you know if it's possible do dynamic decoding at run-time using the Python API? - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/python/ Indeed there is a descriptor.FileDescriptor, however I'm not sure what the other classes correspond to? Thanks, Mike. On

[protobuf] Re: Dynamic/run-time decoding

2016-03-21 Thread Mike Trienis
Hello, I would very much like to know if this is possible with the Python API? - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/python/ In other words, if I have a .proto schema file, do I have to use *protoc* to compile a python module in order to decode the protobuf