On Monday, 1 April 2013 at 08:53:51 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-04-01 01:39, Jesse Phillips wrote:
I'm not well versed in PB or Orange so I'd need to play around
more with
both, but I'm pretty sure Orange would need changes made to be
able to
make the claim PB is supported. It should be possible to
create a binary
format based on PB.
Isn't PB binary? Or it actually seems it can be both.
Let me see if I can describe this.
PB does encoding to binary by type. However it also has a schema
in a .proto file. My first concern is that this file provides the
ID to use for each field, while arbitrary the ID must be what is
specified.
The second one I'm concerned with is option to pack repeated
fields. I'm not sure the specifics for this encoding, but I
imagine some compression.
This is why I think I'd have to implement my own Serializer to be
able to support PB, but also believe we could have a binary
format based on PB (which maybe it would be possible to create a
schema of Orange generated data, but it would be hard to generate
data for a specific schema).
