Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once. This takes the form of a template that describes the data structure. You use this template to encode and decode your data structure into wire-streams that may be sent-to or read-from your peers. The underlying wire stream is platform independent, lossless, and may be used to interwork with a variety of languages and systems regardless of word size or endianness.
This document was produced using PlDoc, with sources found in
protobufs.pl and protobufs_overview.md. There is a simple example at
addressbook.pl, installed at
<base>/doc/packages/examples/protobufs/interop/addressbook.pl
@see https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers @author Jeffrey Rosenwald (JeffRose@acm.org), Peter Ludemann (peter.ludemann@gmail.com) @license BSD-2