Hello Kenton,
Thanks for your reply. I actually read that text earlier, but didn't
get what you're saying from that text (still don't), probably because
it's kind of abstract. My guess is that you're talking about this:
"If any of your elements are optional, the encoded message may or may
not ha
You are correct. Optional fields are not sent if they are not set. This is
documented here:
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/encoding.html#optional
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Leon Mergen wrote:
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> On Feb 24, 2:57 pm, Leon Mergen wrote:
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On Feb 24, 2:57 pm, Leon Mergen wrote:
> After a bit of a search on the site of protocol buffers I was unable
> to see what the behavior of the serialization of unset fields is (that
> is, has_field () == false). Will they be skipped entirely from
> serialization, and thus take up no space at a
