Re: [protobuf] new protoc keywords?

2017-04-28 Thread 'Josh Haberman' via Protocol Buffers
I agree with Josh. It is very unlikely that we would introduce new keywords for defining a different kind of service. On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 12:45:29 PM UTC-7, Josh Humphries wrote: > > I think the right approach to something like this would be to use the > existing service definition

Re: [protobuf] new protoc keywords?

2017-04-26 Thread Josh Humphries
I think the right approach to something like this would be to use the existing service definition support and write a protoc plugin that does the code gen. To layer on extra things -- for concepts/features that OSGI supports but that can't be modeled just with proto service definitions -- you

[protobuf] new protoc keywords?

2017-04-26 Thread Scott Lewis
I've been happily using protocol buffers to implement Java <-> Python interaction using OSGi Remote Services [1,2]. Remote Services is a spec that extends OSGi services to out-of-process access. A nice thing about the Remote Services spec is that it is transport-independent...allowing