gbshankar / proto

parser for Google ProtocolBuffers definition

proto

Package in Go for parsing Google Protocol Buffers [.proto files version 2 + 3] (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/proto3-spec)

install

go get -u -v github.com/emicklei/proto

usage

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/emicklei/proto"
)

func main() {
	reader, _ := os.Open("test.proto")
	defer reader.Close()

	parser := proto.NewParser(reader)
	definition, _ := parser.Parse()

	proto.Walk(definition,
		proto.WithService(handleService),
		proto.WithMessage(handleMessage))
}

func handleService(s *proto.Service) {
	fmt.Println(s.Name)
}

func handleMessage(m *proto.Message) {
	fmt.Println(m.Name)
}

contributions

See proto-contrib for other contributions on top of this package such as protofmt, proto2xsd and proto2gql. protobuf2map is a small package for inspecting serialized protobuf messages using its .proto definition.

© 2017, ernestmicklei.com. MIT License. Contributions welcome.