Load protocol buffer objects into a collection from a file

Question

If I have a file with many protocol buffers messages saved in one after each other, how do I read that file back to a collection in Java?

Answer 1

How did you delimit the protobuf messages?

If you just wrote them one after the other, without using writeDelimitedTo you can't read them back, it's just not a format that protocol buffers support.

If you did use writeDelimitedTo, I think you can figure out the corresponding parse method.