Re: [protobuf] I don't understand why we use protocol buffer

2014-05-07 Thread Marc Gravell
Protocol buffers in the public project consists primarily of the serialization framework; serialization is always necessary when communicating, and frameworks/formats are aplenty, including xml, json, etc. The primary features of protocol buffers (protobuf) are: - efficient binary on the wire

[protobuf] I don't understand why we use protocol buffer

2014-05-01 Thread Flowra white
*Hi,,I was reading a book about Google and that book was talking about the communication paradigms and as i understand google use RPCbut the book mentioned something named protocol buffer I don't get why we use it and what is the relation between it and RPC I searched for meaning but