Documentation ¶
Overview ¶
Package proto converts data structures to and from the wire format of protocol buffers. It works in concert with the Go source code generated for .proto files by the protocol compiler.
A summary of the properties of the protocol buffer interface for a protocol buffer variable v:
- Names are turned from camel_case to CamelCase for export.
- There are no methods on v to set fields; just treat them as structure fields.
- There are getters that return a field's value if set, and return the field's default value if unset. The getters work even if the receiver is a nil message.
- The zero value for a struct is its correct initialization state. All desired fields must be set before marshaling.
- A Reset() method will restore a protobuf struct to its zero state.
- Non-repeated fields are pointers to the values; nil means unset. That is, optional or required field int32 f becomes F *int32.
- Repeated fields are slices.
- Helper functions are available to aid the setting of fields. Helpers for getting values are superseded by the GetFoo methods and their use is deprecated. msg.Foo = proto.String("hello") // set field
- Constants are defined to hold the default values of all fields that have them. They have the form Default_StructName_FieldName. Because the getter methods handle defaulted values, direct use of these constants should be rare.
- Enums are given type names and maps from names to values. Enum values are prefixed with the enum's type name. Enum types have a String method, and a Enum method to assist in message construction.
- Nested groups and enums have type names prefixed with the name of the surrounding message type.
- Extensions are given descriptor names that start with E_, followed by an underscore-delimited list of the nested messages that contain it (if any) followed by the CamelCased name of the extension field itself. HasExtension, ClearExtension, GetExtension and SetExtension are functions for manipulating extensions.
- Marshal and Unmarshal are functions to encode and decode the wire format.
The simplest way to describe this is to see an example. Given file test.proto, containing
package example; enum FOO { X = 17; }; message Test { required string label = 1; optional int32 type = 2 [default=77]; repeated int64 reps = 3; optional group OptionalGroup = 4 { required string RequiredField = 5; } }
The resulting file, test.pb.go, is:
package example import "code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/proto" type FOO int32 const ( FOO_X FOO = 17 ) var FOO_name = map[int32]string{ 17: "X", } var FOO_value = map[string]int32{ "X": 17, } func (x FOO) Enum() *FOO { p := new(FOO) *p = x return p } func (x FOO) String() string { return proto.EnumName(FOO_name, int32(x)) } type Test struct { Label *string `protobuf:"bytes,1,req,name=label" json:"label,omitempty"` Type *int32 `protobuf:"varint,2,opt,name=type,def=77" json:"type,omitempty"` Reps []int64 `protobuf:"varint,3,rep,name=reps" json:"reps,omitempty"` Optionalgroup *Test_OptionalGroup `protobuf:"group,4,opt,name=OptionalGroup" json:"optionalgroup,omitempty"` XXX_unrecognized []byte `json:"-"` } func (this *Test) Reset() { *this = Test{} } func (this *Test) String() string { return proto.CompactTextString(this) } const Default_Test_Type int32 = 77 func (this *Test) GetLabel() string { if this != nil && this.Label != nil { return *this.Label } return "" } func (this *Test) GetType() int32 { if this != nil && this.Type != nil { return *this.Type } return Default_Test_Type } func (this *Test) GetOptionalgroup() *Test_OptionalGroup { if this != nil { return this.Optionalgroup } return nil } type Test_OptionalGroup struct { RequiredField *string `protobuf:"bytes,5,req" json:"RequiredField,omitempty"` XXX_unrecognized []byte `json:"-"` } func (this *Test_OptionalGroup) Reset() { *this = Test_OptionalGroup{} } func (this *Test_OptionalGroup) String() string { return proto.CompactTextString(this) } func (this *Test_OptionalGroup) GetRequiredField() string { if this != nil && this.RequiredField != nil { return *this.RequiredField } return "" } func init() { proto.RegisterEnum("example.FOO", FOO_name, FOO_value) }
To create and play with a Test object:
package main import ( "log" "code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/proto" "./example.pb" ) func main() { test := &example.Test{ Label: proto.String("hello"), Type: proto.Int32(17), Optionalgroup: &example.Test_OptionalGroup{ RequiredField: proto.String("good bye"), }, } data, err := proto.Marshal(test) if err != nil { log.Fatal("marshaling error: ", err) } newTest := new(example.Test) err = proto.Unmarshal(data, newTest) if err != nil { log.Fatal("unmarshaling error: ", err) } // Now test and newTest contain the same data. if test.GetLabel() != newTest.GetLabel() { log.Fatalf("data mismatch %q != %q", test.GetLabel(), newTest.GetLabel()) } // etc. }
Index ¶
- Constants
- Variables
- func Bool(v bool) *bool
- func ClearExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc)
- func CompactText(w io.Writer, pb Message) error
- func CompactTextString(pb Message) string
- func DecodeVarint(buf []byte) (x uint64, n int)
- func EncodeVarint(x uint64) []byte
- func EnumName(m map[int32]string, v int32) string
- func Equal(a, b Message) bool
- func Float32(v float32) *float32
- func Float64(v float64) *float64
- func GetExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc) (interface{}, error)
- func GetExtensions(pb Message, es []*ExtensionDesc) (extensions []interface{}, err error)
- func HasExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc) bool
- func Int(v int) *int32
- func Int32(v int32) *int32
- func Int64(v int64) *int64
- func Marshal(pb Message) ([]byte, error)
- func MarshalMessageSet(m map[int32]Extension) ([]byte, error)
- func MarshalText(w io.Writer, pb Message) error
- func MarshalTextString(pb Message) string
- func Merge(dst, src Message)
- func RegisterEnum(typeName string, unusedNameMap map[int32]string, valueMap map[string]int32)
- func RegisterExtension(desc *ExtensionDesc)
- func RegisterMessageSetType(i messageTypeIder, name string)
- func RegisteredExtensions(pb Message) map[int32]*ExtensionDesc
- func SetDefaults(pb Message)
- func SetExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc, value interface{}) error
- func SetRawExtension(base extendableProto, id int32, b []byte)
- func Size(pb Message) (n int)
- func String(v string) *string
- func Uint32(v uint32) *uint32
- func Uint64(v uint64) *uint64
- func Unmarshal(buf []byte, pb Message) error
- func UnmarshalJSONEnum(m map[string]int32, data []byte, enumName string) (int32, error)
- func UnmarshalMerge(buf []byte, pb Message) error
- func UnmarshalMessageSet(buf []byte, m map[int32]Extension) error
- func UnmarshalText(s string, pb Message) error
- type Buffer
- func (p *Buffer) Bytes() []byte
- func (o *Buffer) DebugPrint(s string, b []byte)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeFixed32() (x uint64, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeFixed64() (x uint64, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeRawBytes(alloc bool) (buf []byte, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeStringBytes() (s string, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeVarint() (x uint64, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeZigzag32() (x uint64, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) DecodeZigzag64() (x uint64, err error)
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeFixed32(x uint64) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeFixed64(x uint64) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeRawBytes(b []byte) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeStringBytes(s string) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeVarint(x uint64) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeZigzag32(x uint64) error
- func (p *Buffer) EncodeZigzag64(x uint64) error
- func (p *Buffer) Marshal(pb Message) error
- func (p *Buffer) Reset()
- func (p *Buffer) SetBuf(s []byte)
- func (p *Buffer) Unmarshal(pb Message) error
- type Extension
- type ExtensionDesc
- type ExtensionRange
- type Marshaler
- type Message
- type MessageSet
- type ParseError
- type Properties
- type RequiredNotSetError
- type Stats
- type StructProperties
- type Unmarshaler
Constants ¶
const ( WireVarint = 0 WireFixed64 = 1 WireBytes = 2 WireStartGroup = 3 WireEndGroup = 4 WireFixed32 = 5 )
Constants that identify the encoding of a value on the wire.
Variables ¶
var ( // ErrRepeatedHasNil is the error returned if Marshal is called with // a struct with a repeated field containing a nil element. ErrRepeatedHasNil = errors.New("proto: repeated field has nil element") // ErrNil is the error returned if Marshal is called with nil. ErrNil = errors.New("proto: Marshal called with nil") )
var ErrMissingExtension = errors.New("proto: missing extension")
ErrMissingExtension is the error returned by GetExtension if the named extension is not in the message.
var ErrNoMessageTypeId = errors.New("proto does not have a message type ID")
ErrNoMessageTypeId occurs when a protocol buffer does not have a message type ID. A message type ID is required for storing a protocol buffer in a message set.
var ErrWrongType = errors.New("proto: field/encoding mismatch: wrong type for field")
ErrWrongType occurs when the wire encoding for the field disagrees with that specified in the type being decoded. This is usually caused by attempting to convert an encoded protocol buffer into a struct of the wrong type.
Functions ¶
func Bool ¶
Bool is a helper routine that allocates a new bool value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func ClearExtension ¶
func ClearExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc)
ClearExtension removes the given extension from pb.
func CompactText ¶
CompactText writes a given protocol buffer in compact text format (one line).
func CompactTextString ¶
CompactTextString is the same as CompactText, but returns the string directly.
func DecodeVarint ¶
DecodeVarint reads a varint-encoded integer from the slice. It returns the integer and the number of bytes consumed, or zero if there is not enough. This is the format for the int32, int64, uint32, uint64, bool, and enum protocol buffer types.
func EncodeVarint ¶
EncodeVarint returns the varint encoding of x. This is the format for the int32, int64, uint32, uint64, bool, and enum protocol buffer types. Not used by the package itself, but helpful to clients wishing to use the same encoding.
func EnumName ¶
EnumName is a helper function to simplify printing protocol buffer enums by name. Given an enum map and a value, it returns a useful string.
func Equal ¶
Equal returns true iff protocol buffers a and b are equal. The arguments must both be pointers to protocol buffer structs.
Equality is defined in this way:
- Two messages are equal iff they are the same type, corresponding fields are equal, unknown field sets are equal, and extensions sets are equal.
- Two set scalar fields are equal iff their values are equal. If the fields are of a floating-point type, remember that NaN != x for all x, including NaN.
- Two repeated fields are equal iff their lengths are the same, and their corresponding elements are equal (a "bytes" field, although represented by []byte, is not a repeated field)
- Two unset fields are equal.
- Two unknown field sets are equal if their current encoded state is equal. (TODO)
- Two extension sets are equal iff they have corresponding elements that are pairwise equal.
- Every other combination of things are not equal.
The return value is undefined if a and b are not protocol buffers.
func Float32 ¶
Float32 is a helper routine that allocates a new float32 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Float64 ¶
Float64 is a helper routine that allocates a new float64 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func GetExtension ¶
func GetExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc) (interface{}, error)
GetExtension parses and returns the given extension of pb. If the extension is not present it returns ErrMissingExtension. If the returned extension is modified, SetExtension must be called for the modifications to be reflected in pb.
func GetExtensions ¶
func GetExtensions(pb Message, es []*ExtensionDesc) (extensions []interface{}, err error)
GetExtensions returns a slice of the extensions present in pb that are also listed in es. The returned slice has the same length as es; missing extensions will appear as nil elements.
func HasExtension ¶
func HasExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc) bool
HasExtension returns whether the given extension is present in pb.
func Int ¶
Int is a helper routine that allocates a new int32 value to store v and returns a pointer to it, but unlike Int32 its argument value is an int.
func Int32 ¶
Int32 is a helper routine that allocates a new int32 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Int64 ¶
Int64 is a helper routine that allocates a new int64 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Marshal ¶
Marshal takes the protocol buffer and encodes it into the wire format, returning the data.
func MarshalMessageSet ¶
MarshalMessageSet encodes the extension map represented by m in the message set wire format. It is called by generated Marshal methods on protocol buffer messages with the message_set_wire_format option.
func MarshalText ¶
MarshalText writes a given protocol buffer in text format. The only errors returned are from w.
func MarshalTextString ¶
MarshalTextString is the same as MarshalText, but returns the string directly.
func Merge ¶
func Merge(dst, src Message)
Merge merges src into dst. Required and optional fields that are set in src will be set to that value in dst. Elements of repeated fields will be appended. Merge panics if src and dst are not the same type, or if dst is nil.
func RegisterEnum ¶
RegisterEnum is called from the generated code to install the enum descriptor maps into the global table to aid parsing text format protocol buffers.
func RegisterExtension ¶
func RegisterExtension(desc *ExtensionDesc)
RegisterExtension is called from the generated code.
func RegisterMessageSetType ¶
func RegisterMessageSetType(i messageTypeIder, name string)
RegisterMessageSetType is called from the generated code.
func RegisteredExtensions ¶
func RegisteredExtensions(pb Message) map[int32]*ExtensionDesc
RegisteredExtensions returns a map of the registered extensions of a protocol buffer struct, indexed by the extension number. The argument pb should be a nil pointer to the struct type.
func SetDefaults ¶
func SetDefaults(pb Message)
SetDefaults sets unset protocol buffer fields to their default values. It only modifies fields that are both unset and have defined defaults. It recursively sets default values in any non-nil sub-messages.
func SetExtension ¶
func SetExtension(pb extendableProto, extension *ExtensionDesc, value interface{}) error
SetExtension sets the specified extension of pb to the specified value.
func SetRawExtension ¶
SetRawExtension is for testing only.
func String ¶
String is a helper routine that allocates a new string value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Uint32 ¶
Uint32 is a helper routine that allocates a new uint32 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Uint64 ¶
Uint64 is a helper routine that allocates a new uint64 value to store v and returns a pointer to it.
func Unmarshal ¶
Unmarshal parses the protocol buffer representation in buf and places the decoded result in pb. If the struct underlying pb does not match the data in buf, the results can be unpredictable.
Unmarshal resets pb before starting to unmarshal, so any existing data in pb is always removed. Use UnmarshalMerge to preserve and append to existing data.
func UnmarshalJSONEnum ¶
UnmarshalJSONEnum is a helper function to simplify recovering enum int values from their JSON-encoded representation. Given a map from the enum's symbolic names to its int values, and a byte buffer containing the JSON-encoded value, it returns an int32 that can be cast to the enum type by the caller.
The function can deal with both JSON representations, numeric and symbolic.
func UnmarshalMerge ¶
UnmarshalMerge parses the protocol buffer representation in buf and writes the decoded result to pb. If the struct underlying pb does not match the data in buf, the results can be unpredictable.
UnmarshalMerge merges into existing data in pb. Most code should use Unmarshal instead.
func UnmarshalMessageSet ¶
UnmarshalMessageSet decodes the extension map encoded in buf in the message set wire format. It is called by generated Unmarshal methods on protocol buffer messages with the message_set_wire_format option.
func UnmarshalText ¶
UnmarshalText reads a protocol buffer in Text format. UnmarshalText resets pb before starting to unmarshal, so any existing data in pb is always removed.
Types ¶
type Buffer ¶
type Buffer struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
A Buffer is a buffer manager for marshaling and unmarshaling protocol buffers. It may be reused between invocations to reduce memory usage. It is not necessary to use a Buffer; the global functions Marshal and Unmarshal create a temporary Buffer and are fine for most applications.
func NewBuffer ¶
NewBuffer allocates a new Buffer and initializes its internal data to the contents of the argument slice.
func (*Buffer) DebugPrint ¶
DebugPrint dumps the encoded data in b in a debugging format with a header including the string s. Used in testing but made available for general debugging.
func (*Buffer) DecodeFixed32 ¶
DecodeFixed32 reads a 32-bit integer from the Buffer. This is the format for the fixed32, sfixed32, and float protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) DecodeFixed64 ¶
DecodeFixed64 reads a 64-bit integer from the Buffer. This is the format for the fixed64, sfixed64, and double protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) DecodeRawBytes ¶
DecodeRawBytes reads a count-delimited byte buffer from the Buffer. This is the format used for the bytes protocol buffer type and for embedded messages.
func (*Buffer) DecodeStringBytes ¶
DecodeStringBytes reads an encoded string from the Buffer. This is the format used for the proto2 string type.
func (*Buffer) DecodeVarint ¶
DecodeVarint reads a varint-encoded integer from the Buffer. This is the format for the int32, int64, uint32, uint64, bool, and enum protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) DecodeZigzag32 ¶
DecodeZigzag32 reads a zigzag-encoded 32-bit integer from the Buffer. This is the format used for the sint32 protocol buffer type.
func (*Buffer) DecodeZigzag64 ¶
DecodeZigzag64 reads a zigzag-encoded 64-bit integer from the Buffer. This is the format used for the sint64 protocol buffer type.
func (*Buffer) EncodeFixed32 ¶
EncodeFixed32 writes a 32-bit integer to the Buffer. This is the format for the fixed32, sfixed32, and float protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) EncodeFixed64 ¶
EncodeFixed64 writes a 64-bit integer to the Buffer. This is the format for the fixed64, sfixed64, and double protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) EncodeRawBytes ¶
EncodeRawBytes writes a count-delimited byte buffer to the Buffer. This is the format used for the bytes protocol buffer type and for embedded messages.
func (*Buffer) EncodeStringBytes ¶
EncodeStringBytes writes an encoded string to the Buffer. This is the format used for the proto2 string type.
func (*Buffer) EncodeVarint ¶
EncodeVarint writes a varint-encoded integer to the Buffer. This is the format for the int32, int64, uint32, uint64, bool, and enum protocol buffer types.
func (*Buffer) EncodeZigzag32 ¶
EncodeZigzag32 writes a zigzag-encoded 32-bit integer to the Buffer. This is the format used for the sint32 protocol buffer type.
func (*Buffer) EncodeZigzag64 ¶
EncodeZigzag64 writes a zigzag-encoded 64-bit integer to the Buffer. This is the format used for the sint64 protocol buffer type.
func (*Buffer) Marshal ¶
Marshal takes the protocol buffer and encodes it into the wire format, writing the result to the Buffer.
func (*Buffer) Reset ¶
func (p *Buffer) Reset()
Reset resets the Buffer, ready for marshaling a new protocol buffer.
type Extension ¶
type Extension struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
Extension represents an extension in a message.
type ExtensionDesc ¶
type ExtensionDesc struct { ExtendedType Message // nil pointer to the type that is being extended ExtensionType interface{} // nil pointer to the extension type Field int32 // field number Name string // fully-qualified name of extension, for text formatting Tag string // protobuf tag style }
ExtensionDesc represents an extension specification. Used in generated code from the protocol compiler.
type ExtensionRange ¶
type ExtensionRange struct {
Start, End int32 // both inclusive
}
ExtensionRange represents a range of message extensions for a protocol buffer. Used in code generated by the protocol compiler.
type Message ¶
type Message interface { Reset() String() string ProtoMessage() }
Message is implemented by generated protocol buffer messages.
type MessageSet ¶
type MessageSet struct { Item []*_MessageSet_Item `protobuf:"group,1,rep"` XXX_unrecognized []byte }
func (*MessageSet) Has ¶
func (ms *MessageSet) Has(pb Message) bool
func (*MessageSet) Marshal ¶
func (ms *MessageSet) Marshal(pb Message) error
func (*MessageSet) ProtoMessage ¶
func (*MessageSet) ProtoMessage()
func (*MessageSet) Reset ¶
func (ms *MessageSet) Reset()
func (*MessageSet) String ¶
func (ms *MessageSet) String() string
func (*MessageSet) Unmarshal ¶
func (ms *MessageSet) Unmarshal(pb Message) error
type ParseError ¶
type ParseError struct { Message string Line int // 1-based line number Offset int // 0-based byte offset from start of input }
func (*ParseError) Error ¶
func (p *ParseError) Error() string
type Properties ¶
type Properties struct { Name string // name of the field, for error messages OrigName string // original name before protocol compiler (always set) Wire string WireType int Tag int Required bool Optional bool Repeated bool Packed bool // relevant for repeated primitives only Enum string // set for enum types only Default string // default value // contains filtered or unexported fields }
Properties represents the protocol-specific behavior of a single struct field.
func (*Properties) Init ¶
func (p *Properties) Init(typ reflect.Type, name, tag string, f *reflect.StructField)
Init populates the properties from a protocol buffer struct tag.
func (*Properties) Parse ¶
func (p *Properties) Parse(s string)
Parse populates p by parsing a string in the protobuf struct field tag style.
func (*Properties) String ¶
func (p *Properties) String() string
String formats the properties in the protobuf struct field tag style.
type RequiredNotSetError ¶
type RequiredNotSetError struct {
// contains filtered or unexported fields
}
RequiredNotSetError is the error returned if Marshal is called with a protocol buffer struct whose required fields have not all been initialized. It is also the error returned if Unmarshal is called with an encoded protocol buffer that does not include all the required fields.
When printed, RequiredNotSetError reports the first unset required field in a message. If the field cannot be precisely determined, it is reported as "{Unknown}".
func (*RequiredNotSetError) Error ¶
func (e *RequiredNotSetError) Error() string
type Stats ¶
type Stats struct { Emalloc uint64 // mallocs in encode Dmalloc uint64 // mallocs in decode Encode uint64 // number of encodes Decode uint64 // number of decodes Chit uint64 // number of cache hits Cmiss uint64 // number of cache misses Size uint64 // number of sizes }
Stats records allocation details about the protocol buffer encoders and decoders. Useful for tuning the library itself.
type StructProperties ¶
type StructProperties struct { Prop []*Properties // properties for each field // contains filtered or unexported fields }
StructProperties represents properties for all the fields of a struct. decoderTags and decoderOrigNames should only be used by the decoder.
func GetProperties ¶
func GetProperties(t reflect.Type) *StructProperties
GetProperties returns the list of properties for the type represented by t.
func (*StructProperties) Len ¶
func (sp *StructProperties) Len() int
func (*StructProperties) Less ¶
func (sp *StructProperties) Less(i, j int) bool
func (*StructProperties) Swap ¶
func (sp *StructProperties) Swap(i, j int)
type Unmarshaler ¶
Unmarshaler is the interface representing objects that can unmarshal themselves. The method should reset the receiver before decoding starts. The argument points to data that may be overwritten, so implementations should not keep references to the buffer.