Re: [protobuf] Can a message derive from another message?

No, message inheritance is not supported. Have a look at http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/techniques.html#union and see if that solves your use case. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:04 AM, ZHOU Xiaobo wrote: > Hi: > My problem is that when I receive a packet I have to check one field(

Re: [protobuf] Can a message derive from another message?

On 03/02/2011 10:04 AM, ZHOU Xiaobo wrote: required string Content = 3; WARNING: You should be using type bytes here, not type string. This doesn't matter for C++, but matters for other languages which will assume strings contain UTF-8 data. Evan -- http://evanjones.ca/ -- You receiv

Re: [protobuf] Can a message derive from another message?

thank you. It sounds like what I am looking for No, message inheritance is not supported. Have a look at http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/techniques.html#union and see if that solves your use case. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:04 AM, ZHOU Xiaobo wrote: > Hi: > My problem is tha

Re: [protobuf] Can a message derive from another message?

thanks On 03/02/2011 10:04 AM, ZHOU Xiaobo wrote: > required string Content = 3; WARNING: You should be using type bytes here, not type string. This doesn't matter for C++, but matters for other languages which will assume strings contain UTF-8 data. Evan -- http://evanjones.ca/ -- Yo