Protocol Buffers for Objective-C

An implementation of Protocol Buffers in Objective C.

Protocol Buffers are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format. This project is based on an implementation of Protocol Buffers from Google. See the Google protobuf project for more information.

This fork contains only ARC version of library.

How To Install Protobuf

1.ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2.brew install automake

3.brew install libtool

4.brew instal protobuf

5.ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/protobuf/2.6.0/bin/protoc /usr/local/bin (optional)

6.git clone git@github.com:alexeyxo/protobuf-objc.git

7../build.sh

8.Add /src/runtime/ProtocolBuffers.xcodeproj in your project.

##Installing from CocoaPods

...

8.cd <your .xcodeproj directory>

9.echo -e "platform :ios , 6.0 \nlink_with '<YourAppTarget>', '<YourAppTarget_Test>' \npod 'ProtocolBuffers', '1.9.2' " > Podfile

10.pod install

Compile ".proto" files.

protoc --plugin=/usr/local/bin/protoc-gen-objc person.proto --objc_out="./"

Example

Web

Server-side requires Ruby(2.0+) and Sinatra gem.

To start ruby sinatra.rb in /Example/Web

if you need to recompile ruby proto models please install ruby_protobuf gem and make 'rprotoc person.proto'

iOS Example

/Example/iOS/Proto.xcodeproj

Project contains protobuf example and small json comparison.

Credits

Maintainer

Alexey Khokhlov

Booyah Inc.

Jon Parise

Google Protocol Buffers, Objective C

Cyrus Najmabadi
Sergey Martynov

Google Protocol Buffers

Kenton Varda, Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and others