On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Wayde Leverington <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently trying to parse a json array to protobuf
> using JsonStringToMessage method.
>
> Example Json:
> [
> {
> Name:"Bob",
> Age:24
> },
> {
> Name:"John",
> Age:12
> },
> {
> Name:"Pat",
> Age:64
> }
> ]
>
> Example Proto:
> syntax = "proto3";
>
> message Person{
> string name = 1 [json_name = "Name"];
> int32 age= 2 [json_name = "Age"];
> }
>
> message PersonList{
> repeated Person personList = 1;
> }
>
>
> Currently this throws an error "INVALID_ARGUMENT:: Root element must be a
> message.". Is there a way to setup a protobuf to allows an anonymous json
> root?
>
Right now JsonStringToMessage works on a message object and expects a JSON
object as the input. You can wrap your JSON array like this to make it work:
{"personList": [ ... your array data ... ]}
>
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