That makes sense, thanks. On Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 4:06:59 PM UTC+3 Em Rauch wrote:
> Packed fields and bytes fields use the same representation in the encoded > wire format. > > There's a bunch of cases where the interpretation is ambiguous without > having a schema available (as in: the same exact byte sequence would be > perfectly sensible to parse under different possible schemas). In those > cases protoscope has to 'guess' what the type is based on some heuristics, > so in the round trip that you are testing it can't really know if it was > serialized as a bytes field or a packed field, and it just shows it as a > bytes field in this case. > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM Andrei Pangratie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Something encoded with protoscope can't be decoded by protoscope, why? >> >> $ echo '0: { 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1}' | protoscope -s | >> xxd -ps >> 021301020304050607080101010101010101010101 >> >> $ echo 021301020304050607080101010101010101010101 | xxd -r -ps | >> protoscope >> `021301020304050607080101010101010101010101` >> >> I've compiled protoscope from here: >> https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protoscope.git commit >> 8e7a6aafa2c9958527b1e0747e66e1bfff045819. Is there a newer version of >> protoscope? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Protocol Buffers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/94703e12-5e56-4026-a6fc-bf8966dfd5fcn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/94703e12-5e56-4026-a6fc-bf8966dfd5fcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/c7a1a3be-836a-418d-906d-807e6e9bf4ben%40googlegroups.com.
