Crate protobuf_native

High-level, safe bindings to libprotobuf, the C++ implementation of Protocol Buffers, Google’s data interchange format.

Maintainership

This crate is maintained by Materialize. Contributions are encouraged:

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Overview

This crate contains handwritten bindings to libprotobuf facilitated by cxx. The API that is exposed is extremely specific to the few users of this library and is subject to frequent change.

Depending on your use case, the auto-generated bindings in protobuf-sys may be more suitable.

API details

This section, as well as the documentation on individual types, is copied directly from the official C++ API reference, with a few modifications made as necessary.

Modules

• compiler
  Implementation of the Protocol Buffer compiler.
• io
  Auxiliary classes used for I/O.

Structs

• Descriptor
  Describes a type of protocol message, or a particular group within a message.
• DescriptorPool
  Used to construct descriptors.
• DescriptorProto
  Describes a message type.
• FileDescriptor
  Describes a whole .proto file.
• FileDescriptorProto
  Describes a complete .proto file.
• FileDescriptorSet
  The protocol compiler can output a file descriptor set containing the .proto files it parses.
• OperationFailedError
  An operation failed.

Traits

• DescriptorDatabase
  Abstract interface for a database of descriptors.
• Message
  Abstract interface for protocol messages.
• MessageLite
  Interface to light weight protocol messages.