Generating the definition of protocol buffers
I have a large set of proprietary schema XML files - XML files define a binary communication protocol (message structure).
I would like to use google protocol buffer technology.
I am using existing code to load XML files into the object model (in memory). I would like to generate a .proto file from this object model.
so I'm basically looking for a code / library (in C # /. NET) that exposes the .proto file format as an object model and can save that object model to a .proto file.
I looked at Jon Skeet dotnet-protobufs, I think I understand what it does (generate C # code based on .proto files)
However, I didn't understand if I could use it for my project (there is probably a .proto object model in there, but probably only code that can parse this format and not write it)
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protobuf-net (my .NET version of protocol buffers) has primitive support for generating proto files, but it wouldn't be easy to fill in the blanks. I first focused on the main core and then on C # with proto. Writing xslt to create a proto from an object model won't be much different. It will take a few days though ... (I have a limited time at the moment).
If this would be helpful please let me know.
For information, the protobuf-net engine is compatible with most XmlSerializer
classes (and DataContractSerializer
more recently BinaryFormatter
) - so if your code is currently running as xml, we can probably get it to work on the protobuf-net. No guarantees, of course ...
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My code can only be serialized and deserialized in binary and text. However, I believe Mark Gravell's project has XML capabilities. In fact, I believe it generates C # code based on loading the binary version of the .proto file (which itself is encoded as protobuf), writing it as XML and then applying XSLT to it ...
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