Because it is in a Json? Internally it probably is protobuf with bytes. But the external API is Json and so it needs to be converted at some point. https://st

Because it is in a Json? Internally it probably is protobuf with bytes. But the external API is Json and so it needs to be converted at some point. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49358526/protobuf-message-to-json-conversion-of-bytes-field-converts-string-to-base64 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49358526/protobuf-messag...