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Here's a use case where protobuf is terrible because it isn't self-describing: write a wireshark plugin which parses and pretty-prints protobuf messages for hum

by ctz 11y ago

Here's a use case where protobuf is terrible because it isn't self-describing: write a wireshark plugin which parses and pretty-prints protobuf messages for human consumption. You can't, because such a plugin would have to have a-priori knowledge of the schema in use.

VikingCoder 11y ago
You mean something like this, which does exactly that? https://code.google.com/archive/p/protobuf-wireshark/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/protobuf-wireshark/ Sure, you don't know the NAME of the field, but you can see the ID of it.