The "why" is because the marshaller assumes the root is a message; however,
you should look at "wrappers.proto" - there are well-known wrappers for
single values of most common types, including string. Also, prefer
"empty.proto" for empty, not your own.
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 13:25, Ananya Bhat
Hi,
I am new to protobuf.
I have question related to specifying partial messages as RPC parameters
and using scalar types in RPCs for returning simple strings
Why message wrappers are required?
Please clarify my doubts to decide better message specification
I have definition something like below
2010/7/21 Julian González julian@gmail.com:
Does protocol buffers support an scalar type of one byte or two byte
length? lets say an int16, int8?
No. But note that integers are 'varint' encoded, so if you only give a
small value, it will only eat up a small amount of bits.
So a number in
