protobuf is very cool. There are two options which I think would be very helpful:
1) An option to prefix a length field to each message. This would make it possible to serialize/deserialize a stream of bytes (e.g., a TCP socket). 2) An option for prefixing a type field to each message -- this makes it possible to tell what message type is coming over a stream of bytes. This is useful in some cases where you expect a message but don't know what kind. For now I can manually prefix these values, but I these options are useful enough that adding options to enable the protoc compiler to automatically do this work would be worthwhile. Thanks for a great tool! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
