Parse unknown enum values like full proto2. Store unknown values in the unknown field set. For repeated fields, store unknown values while leaving known values in place. This can lead to some strange behaviors, such as new values not being serialized (because the unknown field set copy comes second on the wire), or the order of repeated fields changing (if the value is serialized when the field is unknown, and deserialized later when it becomes known). Having strange behavior be consistent with the standard implementation is nonetheless better than diverging. Bug: 26337187 Change-Id: I9fee24d05d387a46e15b07c7a8a97704b76b5f27 (cherry picked from commit 21a20ad7bd239b9120a5426f4a793bc9c213558f)
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https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. You can find protobuf's documentation on the Google Developers site.
This README file contains protobuf installation instructions. To install protobuf, you need to install the protocol compiler (used to compile .proto files) and the protobuf runtime for your chosen programming language.
The protocol compiler is written in C++. If you are using C++, please follow the C++ Installation Instructions to install protoc along with the C++ runtime.
For non-C++ users, the simplest way to install the protocol compiler is to download a pre-built binary from our release page:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases
In the downloads section of each release, you can find pre-built binaries in zip packages: protoc-$VERSION-$PLATFORM.zip. It contains the protoc binary as well as a set of standard .proto files distributed along with protobuf.
If you are looking for an old version that is not available in the release page, check out the maven repo here:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/protobuf/protoc/
These pre-built binaries are only provided for released versions. If you want to use the github master version at HEAD, or you need to modify protobuf code, or you are using C++, it's recommended to build your own protoc binary from source.
If you would like to build protoc binary from source, see the C++ Installation Instructions.
Protobuf supports several different programming languages. For each programming language, you can find instructions in the corresponding source directory about how to install protobuf runtime for that specific language:
| Language | Source |
|---|---|
| C++ (include C++ runtime and protoc) | src |
| Java | java |
| Python | python |
| Objective-C | objectivec |
| C# | csharp |
| JavaNano | javanano |
| JavaScript | js |
| Ruby | ruby |
| Go | golang/protobuf |
| PHP | TBD |
The complete documentation for Protocol Buffers is available via the web at:
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/