[erlang-questions] Looking for a stable Protocol Buffers implementation.

[Alex Arnon]

Hi All,

I am looking for a production-ready Protocol Buffers implementation for Erlang. Which is recommended?

Cheers,
Alex.

[Jack Moffitt]

> I am looking for a production-ready Protocol Buffers implementation for
> Erlang. Which is recommended?

I'd probably use the one that Riak uses:
http://github.com/basho/erlang_protobuffs

jack.
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[Alex Arnon]

This bit in the readme has me worried:

"Support for parsing proto files and creating code from it is volatile and should be considered alpha software at best. Please do not use this in production."

Outdated doc...?

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[Alex]

Hi,

You can try Piqi: http://piqi.org/

Regards,
Alex

[Matthew Evans]

Most of Basho's proto file handling works, but a few things don't.

Another option that I am using with great success is Apache's Thrift. It was originally built by Facebook. The good thing with Thrift is that Erlang is an officially supported language.

http://thrift.apache.org/

You can even implement entire services in a language neutral way.

> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:17:17 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Looking for a stable Protocol Buffers implementation.

[Anthony Molinaro]

Yeah that's been there since the parser was hand rolled.  It's since been replaced with a leex and yecc based parser.  And I can definitely vouch for its use in production.  I've used it in a B2B application with about 30 different partners for about 2 years, probably totaling a couple trillion requests.

-Anthony

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[Alex Arnon]

Thanks guys, I'll try the Basho implementation, and look into thrift.

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[Alex Arnon]

Great, thanks!!!

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