On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:49 PM, mdonohue wrote:
> My goal is to port Google's libphonenumber to java-me, so I can use it
> on a BlackBerry. The current subgoal is to get a Protocol Buffer
> compiler for java-me that is suitable for porting libphonenumber.
> There are four existing libraries mentioned on the wiki. I've tried
> two of them that appeared to have recent development, but ran into
> trouble.
>
> protobuf-j2me on Google Code required a significant number of extra
> tools to be installed just to build it. Since I am willing to use
> java to target java-me, I was a little put off by the requirement to
> use python, and install a whole tool management system in the form of
> 'gyp'
> I wasn't able to successfully build this project on my windows box.
>
> protobuf-j2me on github. It appears this is the same as the other
> protobuf-j2me listed above. Why are both listed on the wiki?
>
> protobuf-javame on Google Code appears to be a pure java
> implementation. I was able to run the compiler on my windows box,
> but it doesn't support comments or default values in the .proto file,
> I get the impression that those are more recent additions to the
> protocol buffers spec. After pruning those parts out of the
> libphonenumber proto files, I also found that this compiler doesn't
> offer a way to copy protocol buffer message objects, and all the
> fields are immutable. Both of those conflict with libphonenumber's
> use of protocolbuffer messages. I looked at fixing the parser to
> support more recent versions of protocol buffers, but discovered it
> was primarily driven by inscrutable regex patterns.
>
> swingme on Sourceforge appeared a little too generic to me. It says
> "This is a 'bastardized' version of Google Protocol Buffers that
> allows for Anonymous Objects." so I didn't even try it, since I want
> to use the real thing.
>
> It looks like I need to write my own java-me target for Protocol
> Buffers. I would like it to be a self contained java codebase, so it
> seems antlr + stringtemplate are the right tools here.
Those are the exact tools used by protostuff.
It has an existing "java bean" output (simple mutable pojos w/ support for
cyclic references).
If that doesn't fit your bill, you can make a customized generator output
(or extend existing ones) using stringtemplate.
See http://code.google.com/p/protostuff/wiki/WritingCustomCodeGenerators
> I am looking
> for a EBNF style specification of the .proto file, but I can't seem to
> find one. I see the documentation, which covers many examples, but I
> want an actual spec for the file.
>
> I found some pretty detailed information on this prolog page --
> http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/package/protobufs.html -- a lot of the
> text appears to have been written by Google in fact. There are
> referenced to the protocol buffers spec, too. But I am having
> trouble finding something similar on the protocol buffers site.So
> where do I find the spec?
>
>
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