[protobuf] Re: Self describing messages

2010-07-26 Thread David
I don't want to send the whole enchilada on the wire - just the descriptor for the message being sent. As I showed above, I know how to get the descriptor on the wire, but the other side (getting the descriptor off the wire and parsing the message using it) is unclear to me. On Jul 24, 2:29 pm,

Re: [protobuf] Re: Self describing messages

2010-07-26 Thread Adam Vartanian
I don't want to send the whole enchilada on the wire - just the descriptor for the message being sent. As I showed above, I know how to get the descriptor on the wire, but the other side (getting the descriptor off the wire and parsing the message using it) is unclear to me. You'll need to

[protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-26 Thread RogerV
On Jul 21, 3:57 am, Tim Acheson tim.ache...@gmail.com wrote: I generally create web services using WCF or ASP.NET MVC. I don't get the point of Protocol Buffers. Am I missing something? It'd be a similar set of reasons as to why we abandoned XML and JSON in favor of AMF when marshaling i/o