No. Again, this requires knowing the proto definition. There's no way to
distinguish between packed arrays and byte blobs given only the encoded
message.
So if I know that a given byte blob is actually a packed array, how
can I decode it without having a precompiled proto definition?
The
Hi folks,
I understand that protocol buffers messages are not fully self-
describing.
However, the message contains the field number, wire type, and value,
right?
In Java, how can I take a byte[] (array of bytes) that represents a
message and deserialize it into a list of tuples that contain
You can use UnknownFieldSet, but be warned that the interface for that class
is likely to change in a future version (because the current design is
somewhat inefficient). If you just want to print the contents, you should
be fine -- just parse into an UnknownFieldSet and then call its toString()
