Comment #3 on issue 247 by compuwarescc: Ability to redirect file output to stdout
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=247
To be honest I had not considered that scenario. Perhaps breaking this into two feature requests would be more appropriate...
1) Command line flag to output to a source archive (zip / jar / tar) "--archive=zip"
( Similar in form to a standard "source archive" where java source files are where their compiled classes would normally be in the jar file. -- noting, of course, that a jar file is really just a zip file and that this feature would require some implementation of assembling zip files being included in protoc )
2) Command line flag to stream the contents of the archive to stdout, which would imply or require that the flag to output to an archive was set. "--stdout"
This solution is a bit more complicated but should work for multiple languages and does not affect the potential contents of the file like a reserved delimiter would. For java, the classes provided with the JRE JarInputStream, ZipInputStream, etc... can be used to read this input easily from stdout.
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