Madhav,
When you receive a raw string of bytes containing a message, you must first
know the type of the message before you can parse/deserialize it. For
example, with C++, you must first instantiate a message of the appropriate
type, and then parse the bytes into the newly instantiated message
I want to mention that I will be updating the Haskell version of
protocol-buffers to be compatible with the new protobuf-2.3.0 release.
If people are interested in it getting updated sooner then I will get it
updated a bit quicker, otherwise it will take a little while.
A question for Kenton or
Have you considered refactoring your compiler into the form of a code
generator plugin? Then you would not have to maintain your own parser
anymore, you'd get the .zip output feature for free, and you could add
insertion points to your code for someone else to extend it to support an
RPC system.
