Serialization support

[demurgos]

Hi,
Your library is one of the first results when looking for Protobuf support with Serde. I see on your README that serialization is not supported yet: could you provide some info about this?
Do you confirm that this is not a technical issue but more a lack of time to work on this? Or are there some technical issues? Is the library still actively maintained or is it better to not wait for serialization support?

I'd like to use protobuf as the communication format between Javascript and and a Wasm module compiled from Rust. This is not a high-priority project and there are other possible formats so this issue is more about getting some information. Thanks.

[dflemstr]

It's definitely possible to implement, I just haven't gotten around to it. Note that this library uses dynamic descriptor parsing, so you feed it a FileDescriptorSet rather than using generated code. I would recommend using https://github.com/danburkert/prost if you want to get nice generated classes in the style of serde.

[demurgos]

Thanks :) The reason why I prefer to stick to Serde is that it is not specific to a single format. My goal is to use JSON as a lowest common denominator and be able to switch to a more efficient format when needed. I did not find Prost yesterday so your link helped me: it looks nice. For the moment I am more thinking about using CBOR or writing a JS implementation of Bincode. Again, I can still use JSON for now so I'll probably reevaluate the situation in a few months. Good luck with your library. February 10, 2018 11:56 AM, "David Flemström" wrote: It's definitely possible to implement, I just haven't gotten around to it. Note that this library uses dynamic descriptor parsing, so you feed it a FileDescriptorSet rather than using generated code. I would recommend using https://github.com/danburkert/prost (https://github.com/danburkert/prost) if you want to get nice generated classes in the style of serde. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub (#1 (comment)), or mute the thread (https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACKEypz5r8p_b9Wei2OquNUGerwP2ip5ks5tTXXCgaJpZM4SANza).