On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Francesco Persico <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I am using protobuf as serialization to send DomainEvent(s) from one
> microservice to another one.
> So from one side i am sending messages to a Kafka topic (messages are
> protobuf serialized DomainEvent like UserCreated(...) or UserUpdated(...))
> and it works good.
> My .proto file is simple like
>
> message UserCreated {
> ...
> }
>
> message UserUpdated {
> ...
> }
>
Instead of sending multiple different message types, you can just send one
message type with an oneof field in it:
message Event {
oneof event {
UserCreated user_created_event = 1;
UseUpdated user_updated_event = 2;
}
}
and then in the receiving side you can check the oneof to see which event
it actually is.
>
> The problem is that when reading from the other side i need to know the
> specific type/class of the message like UserCreated(...) vs
> UserUpdated(...).
> How can i know if the bytes received from Kafka are a UserCreated message
> or a UserUpdated message?
> Do i need to create the .proto file in a different way? Do i need to store
> the message type somewhere in the .proto file?
>
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