In Java I introduced methods called writeDelimitedTo(), parseDelimitedFrom(), and mergeDelimitedFrom() in version 2.1.0. These read and write messages which are prefixed with the message size, thus allowing multiple messages to be written to one stream without any external delimiter. As one or two people have pointed out, these aren't quite useful in their current form because the parse/merge methods do not give any way to detect EOF. So, I want to change the interface. I think the ideal interface would have mergeDelimitedFrom() returning a boolean which is false on EOF (currently it returns a Builder -- itself -- to allow chaining), and praseDelimitedFrom() should probably return NULL on EOF.
The question is, should I just change these methods in-place or should I introduce new methods with the new behavior? If I change them in-place, there's a chance it will break someone. However, since the current methods aren't actually very useful without this change, I'm not sure if I need to worry about breaking anyone -- why would anyone be using a non-useful method anyway? Any opinions? Is anyone using these methods currently? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
