Executable Binaries containing their Messaging Schema

[Dejute Makielski]

Hi, I'm interested in creating program binaries that do not need any additional external Flatbuffers schema files.

I partly accomplished this by putting the contents of the .fbs file into the binary. CMake automatically generates the .h files and an additional resource C++ source file containing the schema definitions (approach inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/a/27206982). The program loads all schemas using the Parser class.

But as soon as a .fbs file contains an 'include' expression it won't work.

Is there an existing approach to bake the schema files into executable binaries?

I removed the include statements to check whether it works but is this the only solution?

How can cyclic dependencies be handled (i.e. node has edges, edges point to nodes)?

[Dejute Makielski]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I would like to be able to process and send both JSON and binary messages (easy compatibility to web frontends).

Thus, I need the schemas at runtime.

[Dejute Makielski]

The 'source_filename' of Parser::Parse() solved my problem. :-)

Am Samstag, 27. Juni 2015 22:51:35 UTC+2 schrieb Dejute Makielski:

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

Cool. Yes, we don't have a particular solution for including schema files in binaries.

We now have binary schema files, but for parsing you still need the text ones. That may change in the future.

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