ok thanks a lot guys! both ByteCount() and VarintSize32() worked for me! Paul
On Oct 20, 3:13 am, Evan Jones <ev...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Oct 20, 2010, at 2:13 , Kenton Varda wrote: > > > But you are actually writing a varint32, which can be anywhere > > between 1 and 5 bytes depending on the value. > > > Use CodedOutputStream::Varint32Size() to compute the number of bytes > > needed to encode a particular value. > > This has the advantage that you can allocate a buffer of exactly the > right size, rather than adding 100 as an estimate. However, you can > also find the final size after all the writes with > CodedOutputStream::ByteCount() > > You should not need to do any byte swapping if you are serializing and > deserializing integers using the protobuf API: it handles any required > byte swapping for you. > > Evan > > -- > Evan Joneshttp://evanjones.ca/ -- 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.