Protobuf and Pipeline questions

[Marc-André Laverdière]

That would work,

What we use in our app is a 'MetaRequest', which is a container for
the actual request + the type field. Works too :)

Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE
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2010/7/7 "이희승 (Trustin Lee)" <trustin at gmail.com>:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I would wrap the protobuf messages with an envelope protocol.  For example:
>
> <TYPE> <LENGTH> <PROTOBUFDATA>
>
> You could determine which protobuf type the message is from the <TYPE>
> field.  It means you need to write a decoder / encoder by yourself
> though.  It shouldn't be difficult.  Please start from the Factorial
> example.
>
> HTH,
> Trustin
>
> On 07/01/2010 07:06 PM, VuuRWerK wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> is there any way to set more then one protobufEncode/-Decoder?
>>
>> Let me explain my problem: I have a command which will be send from the
>> client to the server. The server get the command and do some work according
>> to the command. Now the response ("answer") of the server could be:
>> "nothing", "simple" or "complex". "Nothing" means, the server get the
>> command and the clients doesn't wait for a response from the server, in turn
>> the server won't give a response. "Simple" means, the answer is maybe just a
>> status message, a return code or something simple. The message won't exceed
>> 256 byte. And last but not least the "complex" response will be a bunch of
>> data (in future the data will be compressed) which could be up to several
>> MB.
>>
>> My question is now: What can I do that the client can receive at least 2
>> different responses from the server? Both are "encoded" with Protobuf. And
>> in turn, what I need to do that the server can send at least 2 different
>> responses? Also both are "encoded" with Protobuf.
>> To set 2 different protobufEncoder/-Decoder is not possible.
>>
>> Thanks in advance and best regards
>> Christian
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