I doubt you're going to get a nice clean answer. Chances are it's
"whatever Sanjay was thinking at the time" which led to the current
encoding, maintained throughout the proto versions for backwards
compatibility with existing data. While APIs have changed over time,
the wire encoding has remained
#include
#include
#include
#include "EncodeMessage.pb.h"
using namespace std;
string HexString2BinaryString(string sHex)
{
string sReturn = "";
int sLen = sHex.length();
for (int i = 0; i < sLen; ++i)
{
switch (sHex[i])
{
case '0': sReturn.append(""); break;
case '1':
