PBC
PBC is a google protocol buffers library for C without code generation.
Quick Example
package tutorial;
message Person {
required string name = 1;
required int32 id = 2; // Unique ID number for this person.
optional string email = 3;
enum PhoneType {
MOBILE = 0;
HOME = 1;
WORK = 2;
}
message PhoneNumber {
required string number = 1;
optional PhoneType type = 2 [default = HOME];
}
repeated PhoneNumber phone = 4;
}
struct pbc_rmessage * m = pbc_rmessage_new(env, "tutorial.Person", slice);
printf("name = %s\n", pbc_rmessage_string(m , "name" , 0 , NULL));
printf("id = %d\n", pbc_rmessage_integer(m , "id" , 0 , NULL));
printf("email = %s\n", pbc_rmessage_string(m , "email" , 0 , NULL));
int phone_n = pbc_rmessage_size(m, "phone");
int i;
for (i=0;i<phone_n;i++) {
struct pbc_rmessage * p = pbc_rmessage_message(m , "phone", i);
printf("\tnumber[%d] = %s\n",i,pbc_rmessage_string(p , "number", i ,NULL));
printf("\ttype[%d] = %s\n",i,pbc_rmessage_string(p, "type", i, NULL));
}
pbc_rmessage_delete(m);
Message API
You can use wmessage for encoding , and rmessage for decoding.
See test/addressbook.c for detail.
Pattern API
If you need higher performance , you can use pbc_pattern_xxx api .
See test/pattern.c for detail.
pattern api is faster, and less memory used, and you can access data from native C struct .
Extension
PBC support extension with a simple way . PBC will add a prefix to every extension field name.
Service
Not supported
Enum
With message API , you can use both string and integer as the enum type , and with pattern api it must be integer.
Lua bindings
cd bindings/lua && make
See https://github.com/cloudwu/pbc/tree/master/binding/lua/README.md
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