Re: [protobuf] ProtoBuf v2/v3 wire compatibility

2015-03-24 Thread 'Feng Xiao' via Protocol Buffers
Proto2 and proto3 are wire compatible. The same construct in proto2 and proto3 will have the same binary representation. If your proto only uses features available in both proto2 and proto3, systems built with proto2 should be able to communicate with systems built with proto3 without any problem

[protobuf] ProtoBuf v2/v3 wire compatibility

2015-03-24 Thread Mike Heffner
Hi, I haven't been able to find any documentation that explicitly states whether the wire (binary) format of Protobuf v2 messages are compatible with protobuf messages generated with v3 (using `syntax=proto2`). The only documentation seems to mention API differences between the two library