Protofuse is a tool that mounts marshaled protocol buffers as a filesystem for easier viewing and debugging.
To use protofuse:
$ protofuse 'path of mount location' 'marshaled protocol buffer' 'path to .proto file' 'package name' 'message name'
protofuse/mount/mount.go also contains functions
Mount(marshaled []byte, fileDesc *google_protobuf.FileDescriptorSet, packageName string, messageName string, mountPoint string) error
and
MountList(marshaled [][]byte, fileDesc *google_protobuf.FileDescriptorSet, messageName string, mountPoint string) error
that can be used to mount protocol buffers.
marshaled is a marshaled protocol buffer or a slice of marshaled protocol buffers
fileDesc is a FileDescriptorSet describing the proto files
packageName is the name of the package of the top-level message
messageName is the name of the top-level message
mountPoint is the path to the location to mount the filesystem