Hello, thank you very much for the ideas. Since i will have a unknowable ammount of Message types, extensions would be the way to go. Your were right with the assumption that i use Java.
The "construct and send that message" stuff is not the problem, the main problem is, how i should parse the incoming ByteBuffer (or byte[]). I just cant figure out how i would be able to access the packets type. What im guesing now is, that since i will only send "Packet" messages (to stick to the threads examples) in the future, my lib will know that it only needs to deal with that "wrapper" type. From that i will access the payload using the extension methods? so the decoder part will work like this: - get byte array from wire - parse that data with the Packet-message types builder (mergeFrom(buffer)....) - now we have a Packet-object with the header fields set and the payload as extension - extract the payload object - push it to the appropriate handler But how exactly this would work with the above example? Is the "type" then transmitted as string? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
