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tandr on July 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Ion

if it is an "easy to produce or consume in language X" it does not mean it is canonical - it means that language X has an extension that allows to do so. Is there a place in protobuf spec or documentation mentioning this to be a part of the protocol?

vii on July 23, 2020 [–]

Language X is at least C++ (as linked), Java https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc... , and Python https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/pyth...

I think the Protobuf spec focuses on the binary serialization - the text format and JSON representations are not related to that at all, of course.

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