Is nanopb suitable to encode/decode data written/read from external memory?

[Carlos Diaz]

Hi,

I'm fairly new with protocol buffers, last weekend i did my first toy app using nanopb

on a microcontroller and protobuf in a PC application, nanopb is very easy to use

once you get the idea :).

My question:

Being communication between devices the principal use case for protocol buffers,

can i use it to encode data into a message/buffer, store it in a external memory

(EEPROM in my case) and then read the same message/buffer and decode it?

Kind regards,

Carlos

[Petteri Aimonen]

Hi,

> Being communication between devices the principal use case for
> protocol buffers, can i use it to encode data into a message/buffer,
> store it in a external memory (EEPROM in my case) and then read the
> same message/buffer and decode it?

Yeah, protobuf works well for that also, to store configuration or other
data on a memory chip.

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Petteri

[Carlos Diaz]

> Yeah, protobuf works well for that also, to store configuration or other data on a memory chip.

Hi, thanks for the tip.

Ii will ask for help if i got stuck with something (the only thing i don't fully understand are the oneof's).

Carlos