
The following languages are supported by Google, but the projects’ source code The following languages are supported directly in the protocol buffers compiler,

Specific values from that serialized data in a separate Python application Software system, serialize it based on a. You can have a Java program on one platform capture data from one The same messages can be read by code written in any supported programming

The format is suitable for bothĮphemeral network traffic and long-term data storage. Protocol buffers provide a serialization format for packets of typed, structuredĭata that are up to a few megabytes in size. That is written to a file (or sent across a network connection). proto files), the code that the proto compiler generates to interface withĭata, language-specific runtime libraries, and the serialization format for data Protocol buffers are a combination of the definition language (created in Structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily writeĪnd read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a It’s like JSON, except it’s smaller and faster, and it Mechanism for serializing structured data in a forward-compatible andīackward-compatible way. Protocol buffers provide a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
