On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, George <george.georg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for your advice. > > I’m implementing a component model that has a different type-system > than protocol buffer. For the connectors that are IPC or inter > technology I would like to base the serialization on protocol buffers. > There is always an option based on the IDL definition I to generate > specific protocol buffer messages that represent the exact argument > list per method, but this looks over kill for me. > That's the way protocol buffers are intended to be used. I.e. you would have unique input and output types for every method. Trying to have a "generic" type defeats a lot of the purpose of protocol buffers -- you lose the type safety, some of the efficiency, the forward- and backwards-compatibility, etc. -- 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.