Protobufs are pretty much designed to be read all at once. The normal thing would be to define a stream format that prefixes the serialized protobufs with their length and buffer the data until a whole protobuf has been read.
In other words: you should not describe the whole stream as a single protobuf (like you often would with, say, XML) but instead use a different format for framing a stream of protobufs. Regards, Mika 2009/11/24 Gilad Ben-Ami <gilad...@gmail.com>: > Hey, > > I'm using ACE library for C++ and it's reactor pattern for handling > asynchronous read from / write to sockets. > I'm trying to integrate Protocol buffers into my solution in order to > exchange data with another process developed in Java. > > The way asynchronous work, forces me to know in advance what is the > expected message size and only after i have all the data try to parse > it with PB. > What is the best way to use PB in this scenario? Is there any Stream i > can use to hold the data arrived? and i can i recover from trying to > parse a message that has failed because of not enough data arrived? > > Your help is appreciated. > Thanks. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
