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Karthik
Karthik

Reputation: 31

Protocol Buffers - RPC

I'm trying to have a messaging service(over TCPIP) between windows on PC(running C# app) and linux on an SoC board(running C++ app). I went through Google's protocol buffers and thought that I can serialize the structure (data struct) into a buffer and write this buffer over sockets(saw an example too).

My question, is there another way to do this? What does protocol buffer-RPC do? I went through their documentation but they don't specify on how to do it with TCPIP. Maybe someone has examples for this or detailed documentation?

Thank you, Karthik.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1139

Answers (2)

Krystian Sakowski
Krystian Sakowski

Reputation: 1653

My question, is there another way to do this?

There are many ways to do this. Google Protocol Buffers is library for cross-platform object serialization. You can share this serialized data in many different ways. My recommendation for you is using ZMQ (ZMQ GUIDE) which is perfectly suited for applications like yours.

I have a similar use case to you. I wrote Linux C++ ZMQ server on Raspberry Pi and Python ZMQ client dedicated for telemetry and remote management purposes. This library is efficient, lightweight, works perfectly with Google Protocol Buffers and has binding to all major programming languages. If you decide to use this library do not hesitate to ask me about working code example.

Upvotes: 1

Andrew Flynn
Andrew Flynn

Reputation: 1516

See if the Google Developers page on how the protocol buffers wire format is encoded helps with your question: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding

Upvotes: 0

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