The trickiest part of decoding protobufs blind is how embedded messages and strings have the same tag type, but that's pretty easy to handle. You can write a s

The trickiest part of decoding protobufs blind is how embedded messages and strings have the same tag type, but that's pretty easy to handle. You can write a simple protobuf decoder in a couple hundred lines of code if you don't want to pull in the full protoc dependency: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/gubernator/pb_glance.py https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/guberna... https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/gubernator/testgrid.py https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/blob/master/guberna...