Using Protobuf Without Serialize/Deserialize Part

[Kaveh Shahbazian]

Is it possible to use protobuf for generating only the data structure in multiple languages, without the serialization utilities?

This is useful in scenarios that, multiple programming languages are used in different parts of the system. The serialization could be (usually) JSON or something else. And the data structures are POJO/POCO/POGO/etc.

Point is, the protobuf IDL itself, seems to be a superb tool for implementing a consistent contract between different parts of the system.

[Adam Cozzette]

You could certainly do this, but I don't think the generated types meet the technical definition of POJO, etc. For example, in C++ the types are not technically POD (plain old data). That doesn't sound like it would be a problem, though. It sounds like you plan to just use protobuf JSON serialization instead of the binary serialization, which will work just fine.

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