Go Protobuf in Go Using Protobuf with Go
Example
The message you want to serialize and send that you can include into a file test.proto, containing
package example;
enum FOO { X = 17; };
message Test {
required string label = 1;
optional int32 type = 2 [default=77];
repeated int64 reps = 3;
optional group OptionalGroup = 4 {
required string RequiredField = 5;
}
}
To compile the protocol buffer definition, run protoc with the --go_out parameter set to the directory you want to output the Go code to.
protoc --go_out=. *.proto
To create and play with a Test object from the example package,
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
"path/to/example"
)
func main() {
test := &example.Test {
Label: proto.String("hello"),
Type: proto.Int32(17),
Reps: []int64{1, 2, 3},
Optionalgroup: &example.Test_OptionalGroup {
RequiredField: proto.String("good bye"),
},
}
data, err := proto.Marshal(test)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("marshaling error: ", err)
}
newTest := &example.Test{}
err = proto.Unmarshal(data, newTest)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("unmarshaling error: ", err)
}
// Now test and newTest contain the same data.
if test.GetLabel() != newTest.GetLabel() {
log.Fatalf("data mismatch %q != %q", test.GetLabel(), newTest.GetLabel())
}
// etc.
}
To pass extra parameters to the plugin, use a comma-separated parameter list separated from the output directory by a colon:
protoc --go_out=plugins=grpc,import_path=mypackage:. *.proto
