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Support for TextFormat #268

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
This is actually a feature request to have an implementation of the original 
TextFormat utilities.
They would be quite useful to have messages in a readable format but still able 
to parse them and encode in wire format.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by simone.b...@gmail.com on 30 Jan 2012 at 11:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
The idea here is to be able to edit messages in an application, then be able to 
parse them back into .net objects. I know that JSON would be possible as an 
intermediary step, but the protobuffer spec already provides for TextFormat, so 
that would be more convenient.

Original comment by trustthe...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2013 at 11:59

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
I use TextFormat to provide development files, which can then be converted to 
binary for release builds. Despite my primary application being in C++, it 
would be nice to use C# for the utilities, however the lack of TextFormat 
support in protobuf-net stops it being possible to convert this to a C# utility.

Original comment by bfh...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 4:32