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I've got Google Protocol buffers 80% working in Python3. My .proto file works, I'm encoding data, life is almost good. The problem is that I can't ParseFromString the result of SerializeToString. When I print SerializeToString it looks like what I'd expect, a fairly compact binary representation (preceded by b').
My guess is that perhaps this is a difference in the way Python2 and Python3 handle strings. The putput of SerializeToString is Bytes, not a string.
Printed output of SerializeToString (Python type is ):
b'\x10\xd7\xeb\x8e\xcd\x04\x1a\x0cnamegoeshere2@\x08\x80\xf8\xde\xc3\x9f\xb0\x81\x89\x14\x11\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x80d\xc0\x19\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xc0m@!\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x80R\xc0)\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00x\xb7\xc01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x8c\x95@9\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x16\xb2@'
result of ParseFromString(message):
None
No error is provided...
So - my best guess is that all I need to do is .decode() the bytes object generated, the problem is that I have no clue what the encoding is. I've tried UTF-8, -16, Latin-1, and a few others without success. My Google-Fu is strong but I haven't found anything on this.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Protobuf strings are always valid UTF-8 strings. See the Language Guide: A string must always contain UTF-8 encoded or 7-bit ASCII text.
ParseFromString is a method -- it does not return anything, but rather fills in self with the parsed content. Use it like: message = MyMessageType() message.ParseFromString(data) print message.some_field.
A protocol buffer message is a series of key-value pairs. The binary version of a message just uses the field's number as the key -- the name and declared type for each field can only be determined on the decoding end by referencing the message type's definition (that is, the . proto file).
ParseFromString is a method -- it does not return anything, but rather fills in self with the parsed content. Use it like:
message = MyMessageType()
message.ParseFromString(data)
print message.some_field
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