[protobuf] best way to create message from prototype + data

2011-01-18 Thread koert
A very common situation for me is when i get handed a Message prototype plus a byte[] data, and then i am supposed to create the Message object from it. Since my prototype is just a Message i cannot use parseFrom(), and i have to resort to: try { message =

Re: [protobuf] best way to create message from prototype + data

2011-01-18 Thread Kenton Varda
Yep, that's the best thing to do right now. We're thinking of introducing a separate Parser interface, which would allow you to do: message = prototype.getParserForType().parse(data); On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:34 AM, koert koertkuip...@gmail.com wrote: A very common situation for me is when