I tried YourProtocolMessage.getDefaultInstance() and as you said it is
of zero byte size. I've a required field called ID with default cluase
in pnroto file (with default value set to -1). When i send the default
instance, I see ID set to -1 (which is default value specified in
proto file) but on
Thanks for your response. I had one more question. Is it possible to
write a null value to output stream? I'm writing a client/server
application and using PB as layer to transfer data. In certain cases
response would be null if required data is not there in my DB. For
null responses, i don't want
On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:56 , Prakash Rao wrote:
I'm just looking for a easy way to write null response if data is not
present in DB and write proto message object if data is present
parse these in client side appropriately. I didn't get a easy way to
do this using CodedInputStream. Currently i'm
A tag indicates to the decoder what is coming next in the input stream, and
allows the decoder to handle it appropriately. This is a key feature of the
protobuf wire format - this enables forward and backward compatibility, as
well omitting fields that aren't present from the serialization. The
