I wrote a generic proto-to-xml routine (using TinyXML) that'll convert
any Message* into XML. Thanks to the reflection interface and
TextFormat, it was pretty straightforward. (if there's interest in
seeing it let me know... I'll clear it with my boss and post to this
forum).
Now I'm trying to do the reverse, and I'm having issues with repeated
fields that are themselves messages. When parsing the XML it finds a
repeated message, but I can't figure out what method to call in order
to automagically create a new object of the correct derived Message
type for this repeated field. The goal is to call
Reflection::AddMessage(), then recursively call my XmlToProto()
routine on this new object, parsing any children in the XML tree.
I was looking for a method in either the Descriptor or Reflection
interfaces to allocate a new object of the right Message-derived type
(obviously it would have to then return it a a Message*, which is
fine), but didn't see anything. Can someone point me in the right
direction?
Thanks in advance,
-Jason
On Sep 29, 6:06 am, sim <simon.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool. New syntax I didn't know about! I think this would be useful
> for converting the other way around (Proto-to-XML).
>
> On Sep 28, 6:05 pm, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.
>
> > Another way to do this would be to write code based on protobuf reflection
> > and custom options, so you could have a proto like:
> > message Foo {
> > optional int32 i = 1 [(xml_disposition) = ATTRIBUTE];
> > optional Bar bar = 2 [(xml_disposition) = ELEMENT];
> > }
>
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:14 AM, sim <simon.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi all. Would anybody be interested in an XML to Protocol Buffers
> > > converter if it were opened up to the community? I have an XML
> > > stylesheet that transforms an annotated XSD set into a Java class that
> > > uses JAXB and the Protocol Buffers Java API to convert XML documents
> > > into either text or binary mode Protocol Buffers messages. The XSD
> > > annotations define the mappings from XSD elements to Proto messages
> > > (although at present staying close to a 1:1 mapping is probably
> > > safest). Some fancy XSD features are not yet supported but the usual
> > > complexTypes, simpleTypes, elements, and enumerations work.
>
> > > Simon Weeks
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