Protocol Buffers: Portable Data Serialization🔗 i

Facilities to read and write Protocol Buffers in binary format. The basic message type is re-exported from the reflection module.

Read a structure instance encoded in protocol buffer format from the port in. type/msg can either represent a protocol buffer message type or be an existing protocol buffer message that will be destructively merged with the newly read data.

Write v to the port out, encoding it in protocol buffer format. v must be an instance of a protocol buffer message type.