[protobuf] Sorting Protocol Buffers with Hadoop MapReduce

2010-12-16 Thread Owen O'Malley
All, I'm hooking in ProtoBuf (as well as Avro, and Thrift) into Hadoop MapReduce. In order for that to make sense, I need to be able to sort on the protobuf messages. Hadoop uses compare function over the bytes of two serialized objects. Obviously, I could just use a memcmp, but that

Re: [protobuf] image

2010-12-16 Thread Henner Zeller
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:11, leo kmukes...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to use 'Protocol Buffers' in one of my Java ME project which requires server to send catalogs (possibly with images). Can I send images (PNG format) using 'Protocol Buffers'? With the type 'bytes', you can send