On 3/3/09 2:51 PM, Alex Payne wrote:
Protocol Buffers aren't really designed for over-the-Internet APIs.
Unless I'm mistaken, I don't believe that Google allows third-party
interaction with their services over Protocol Buffers.
From the Protocol Buffers project page:
"Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient
yet extensible format. Google uses Protocol Buffers for almost all of
its internal RPC protocols and file formats."
Protocol Buffers are definitely well-designed for over-the-Internet
APIs. It's a means of encoding structured data, like XML is, but efficient.
XML and JSON are swell, but they suck for any non-trivial amount of data
where the structure's overhead really starts to add up.
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