[protobuf] Using a ByteBuffer instead of a ByteString?

2011-01-11 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Hello, I recently started to use GPB, great software! :) But I have noticed in java that it is impossible to create a message containing a "bytes" fields without copying some buffers around. For example if I have a encoded message of 1MB with a few regular fields and one big bytes field, decoding

Re: [protobuf] Using a ByteBuffer instead of a ByteString?

2011-01-11 Thread Evan Jones
On Jan 11, 2011, at 0:45 , Nicolae Mihalache wrote: But I have noticed in java that it is impossible to create a message containing a "bytes" fields without copying some buffers around. For example if I have a encoded message of 1MB with a few regular fields and one big bytes field, decoding the

Re: [protobuf] Using a ByteBuffer instead of a ByteString?

2011-01-11 Thread Kenton Varda
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Nicolae Mihalache wrote: > Hello, > > I recently started to use GPB, great software! :) > > But I have noticed in java that it is impossible to create a message > containing a "bytes" fields without copying some buffers around. For > example if I have a encoded mes