protobuf is not designed to match up to existing binary formats. It is a specification that allows protobuf implementations to read/write messages in a cross platform way. Things like “text” protobuf are human readable.
> On Mar 18, 2019, at 12:42 PM, Burak Serdar <bser...@ieee.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 11:39 AM R Srinivasan <s...@srin.me> wrote: >> >> Dont follow you. There is a way to indicate a particular field is uint16 in >> the proto3 language? please clarify. thanks, srini > > > There are only 32- and 64-bit variants, according to > https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#simple > > > >> >>> On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 1:08:58 PM UTC-4, Tamás Gulácsi wrote: >>> >>> Protobuf is a data interchange format, good to publish that legacy binary - >>> after you've parsed it. >>> As such you are free to put that uing16 value into an uint32... >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
