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…decisions made in protobuf, or if it's just one less bad tradeoff among several bad ones. [1]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/e9360dfa53f...

comment by sleepydog · 2021-03-31 · in Golang: Know Your 'Nil'

…also met with much opposition internally, and recently changed as of v3.12 (released last year). https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/docs... https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3....

comment by vitus · 2021-03-30 · in Golang: Know Your 'Nil'

Oh, I see now - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v3.... (General) - I wasn't aware of that as I think I've started using proto3 after that version. Good to know.

comment by malkia · 2021-03-15 · in REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC

…implementation (or something similar) the last time I looked at protobuf. We sort of do actually: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... The internal version of protobuf lets you switch individual string fields to…

comment by haberman · 2020-12-30 · in Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

(More) permanent link for those reading this a few years later. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/5a7a4a52a79...

comment by scaladev · 2020-11-24 · in “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

The latest optimized version of the protobuf parser does a remarkably similar thing: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... Protobufs are full of varints, and we want to perform only one bounds-check per field. So…

comment by haberman · 2020-11-23 · in “To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”

…and has no formal spec, and this appears to be intentional, with no plans for improvement: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/3755 .

comment by atombender · 2020-10-04 · in NestedText, a nice alternative to JSON, YAML, TOML

…C++ (as linked), Java https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc... , and Python https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/pyth... I think the Protobuf spec focuses on the binary serialization - the text…

comment by vii · 2020-07-23 · in Amazon Ion

…open issue [1] tracking the possibility of making it available in the open source version too. [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1896

comment by quietbritishjim · 2020-06-21 · in FlexBuffers

…use something like http://jsonlines.org/ (i.e. JSON messages separated by newline characters), or https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf if it's more performance-critical.

comment by jstanley · 2020-05-15 · in What developers should know about TCP

…it doesn't seem to really match this description or enforce a hermetic seal. What am I missing? [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf

comment by keithwinstein · 2020-05-14 · in Building Uber’s Go Monorepo with Bazel

I like the way how google does it with StatusOr and some status macros https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

comment by thisgoodlife · 2020-04-22 · in Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (2012)

It exists in C++ too: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

comment by haberman · 2020-03-10 · in MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small

…with Cap'n'proto but apparently Google already has a zero-copy API for Protocol Buffers internally: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1896

comment by Youden · 2020-03-08 · in We have to talk about this Python, Gunicorn, Gevent thing

…these fields with a comment explaining the apparently pointless wrapper. Google themselves provide https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... to deal with this situation. Quoted from the documentation: > Wrappers for…

comment by gen220 · 2020-01-31 · in Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3

You can implement emptiness with the wrapper message types, e.g. StringValue: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... and sometimes defining your own, e.g. nullable lists. It's not elegant, but it is simple.

comment by gabetax · 2020-01-30 · in Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1896 Ok some of the things I said couldn't be done, can be done, but it's situational

comment by tlarkworthy · 2019-12-26 · in Protobuffers Are Wrong

…one has to use convention _in every single class_ to determine basic things like PATCH semantics ( https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/359 ). This makes it impossible to treat protobuf as a general data format and requires…

comment by abernard1 · 2019-12-24 · in Protobuffers Are Wrong

> there is no proto2 library for C#! Looks like that's getting fixed! https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/docs... https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pulls?q=is%3Apr+...

comment by kentonv · 2019-12-24 · in Protobuffers Are Wrong

…specify a dang top-level-package in the emitted _pb2.py and let me wrangle it with setup.py? [0] - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/90 [1] - https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1491

comment by kortex · 2019-12-24 · in Protobuffers Are Wrong

…as explicit (actually often moreso, since its more difficult to forget an error condition) [1]: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/d0f91c863ae...

comment by joshuamorton · 2019-10-21 · in Python at Scale: Strict Modules

…to use exceptions in C++. Google doesn't, for example. Errors are reported with StatusOr<> like so: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

comment by m0zg · 2019-08-30 · in Linux kernel drivers in Rust might become an option in the future

…is similar to this one in that it makes guesses and then uses strtod() to check them. (...) https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/ed4321d1cb3...

comment by coldtea · 2019-08-28 · in Python rounds float values by converting them to string and then back

…that's similar to the RETURN_IF_ERROR that's common in Google C++ code (for example, in protobuf: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... )

comment by cbhl · 2019-07-03 · in An Open Letter to the Go Team About Try

…A really large amount of work has gone into protobuf C++ performance in the last 3 years or so. 1: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

comment by shereadsthenews · 2019-06-24 · in Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone

…the reader that a given function call can fail. This seems nice, and I would definitely use it. [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

comment by alexhutcheson · 2019-06-05 · in Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, try

…removed due to the challenges it introduces in designing backwards-compatible API changes[1]. [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/2497#issu...

comment by ntenenz · 2019-05-27 · in Why We’re Switching to gRPC

…a suitable type signature. [0] https://capnproto.org/faq.html#how-do-i-make-a-field-require... [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/2497#issu...

comment by pacala · 2019-02-19 · in Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (2017)

…but there is a reason that "required" fields were taken out in proto3). From the source code: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... // An UnknownFieldSet contains fields that were encountered while parsing a //…

comment by joatmon-snoo · 2019-01-08 · in SQL Is No Excuse to Avoid DevOps

…the package name). [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18735609/the-path-in-pro... [2] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/723#issue...

comment by quietbritishjim · 2018-12-18 · in BloomRPC: GUI Client for GRPC Services

…[3]. He lurks around here :) [0] https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/TSDhe5CvaFe [1] https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf [2] https://capnproto.org [3] https://sandstorm.io

comment by AceJohnny2 · 2018-12-04 · in The Friendship That Made Google Huge

…lower-quality than internal Google code, which shocked me. I've found memory errors in protobuf ( https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/3752 ), all sorts of wacky stuff in Bazel, and every day I wonder why go-protobuf doesn't…

comment by jmillikin · 2018-10-11 · in Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?

> No one said that all fields should be optional As of protobuf v3, all fields must be optional. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/2497

comment by slavik81 · 2018-10-11 · in Arguing against using protobuffers

…If T is a scalar, you get to use one of the WKTs. See this GitHub issue for more context: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/1606 I work with data where most attributes outside of the attributes that compose the key…

comment by deathanatos · 2018-10-11 · in Arguing against using protobuffers

…files and mkmf creates a Makefile that builds against the correct headers with the correct flags: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/ruby/ext/goog... This tool knows about C/C++. It sadly doesn't know about Rust.

comment by haberman · 2018-07-20 · in The future of WebAssembly – A look at upcoming features and proposals

…dtoa(). And so that's how the Protocol Buffers library deals with numbers when writing TextFormat: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/ed4321d1cb3319998411... But the bigger lesson for me was: Transmitting floating-point numbers in…

comment by kentonv · 2018-06-11 · in How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (1990) [pdf]

…any new parser through the conformance tests; I created these to exercise some of the edge cases. https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/conformance Here are some of the quirks of protobuf: - non-repeated fields can occur multiple…

comment by haberman · 2018-04-23 · in Parsing JSON is a Minefield

…directory structure for all source files, including protos. Well, yes. You do... At Google. [1] https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/881 [2] https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/1491

comment by heavenlyblue · 2018-03-09 · in Relibc: C Library in Rust for Redox and Linux

…fields. There was a change that made proto3 do this, and that has now (thankfully) been reversed. https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/272#issuecomment-2...

comment by charleslmunger · 2018-02-11 · in The insane amount of backward compatibility in Google Maps

> And JSON endpoints are a damn sight easier to debug and wireshark and all the rest. https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/3303

comment by merb · 2018-01-26 · in gRPC-Go Engineering Practices

…schema-less. The Any type is also designed for this sort of thing. Still clumsy, though. [1] https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr...

comment by spenczar5 · 2018-01-16 · in Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go

…fields can be ignored and "required fields are generally considered harmful", interesting read: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2497

comment by ithkuil · 2017-12-11 · in Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine communication

I don't follow what you are saying. Protobuf has a BUILD file: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/BUILD Do you mean something else? A GitHub issue might be a better place for this discussion.

comment by haberman · 2017-09-26 · in Abseil: C++ Common Libraries

…develop. Another alternative is using something like protobuf [1] to define your data models. [1] https://github.com/google/protobuf

comment by rockostrich · 2017-07-27 · in Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest

…as google.protobuf.BoolValue instead of bool gives you that (same with the other primitive types: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr... ). But making primitive types never null aligns proto3 with most programming…

comment by euyyn · 2017-03-14 · in The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare

…not perfect. For instance, I was not able to build GzipInputStream and GzipOutputStream (see e.g. https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/2365 ).

comment by petercerno · 2017-03-14 · in Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

Google has StatusOr<T> for this purpose: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr...

comment by praptak · 2016-12-15 · in When noexcept?

Protocol Buffers is not proprietary. It is open source under the BSD license. Here is the source code: github.com/google/protobuf. It is very much an open protocol, and anyone is free to write their own implementation of it. It is just a…

comment by int_handler · 2016-08-01 · in How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (2005)

…So I think this issue is worth discussing further, and I opened an issue on GitHub to track it: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/1890 Thanks for the feedback.

comment by haberman · 2016-07-29 · in Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released

https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/src/google/pr...

comment by dyoo1979 · 2016-07-29 · in Protocol Buffers v3.0.0 released