If you compile with the macro GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_UTF8_VALIDATION_ENABLED defined, the C++ code will do UTF8 validation. However, it doesn't prevent the data from serializing or parsing, it will simply log an error message. How would you like it to fail?
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:15 PM, JT Olds <jto...@xnet5.com> wrote: > Hello, > > (I submitted this already via the protobuf google group web form, but > I think I screwed up. If not, sorry for the double post) > > I have a C++-based server using protocol buffers as the IDL, and I'm > trying to ensure that it rejects invalid UTF-8 strings. My systest > library is written in Python. The C++ protocol buffer library does not > seem to do any UTF-8 string checking on string types, whereas the > Python library does. So I added some UTF-8 validation testing to the > C++ server-side and I want to check that it works (in case a C++ > client sends invalid UTF-8). Whenever I inject invalid UTF-8 into the > Python systests to make sure the server rejects the string, the Python > library complains. > > Is there a way to override this behavior? > > I don't want to change my protocol buffer definitions to be the bytes > type, because these really should be strings, and the Python library > is doing exactly what I want for the general case. > > -JT > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<protobuf%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@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.
