Not really, no. They take different amounts of space on the wire, and have a different declared wire type (header). Some libraries may choose to be gracious and apply the conversion silently, but other libraries could just say "unexpected wire type" and stop processing.
You could perhaps do it as a `oneof`, and have the client check both? On 15 Nov 2017 11:51 p.m., "James Philbin" <philb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it safe to upgrade float fields to doubles for serialized protos? If > not, why not? > > Thanks, > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
