ProtobufNestedStruct

Serialize your primitives, arrays and hashes using protobuf. Supports nested arrays and hashes.

Supported types:

• nil
• integer
• float
• boolean
• string
• date
• time
• hash (keys must be strings, values' types must be on this list)
• array (elements' types must be on this list)

Inspired by google/protobuf/struct.proto but it can additionally handle Date, Time and Integer values.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'protobuf_nested_struct'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install protobuf_nested_struct

# store the serialized binary string in DB or send over network
serialized = ProtobufNestedStruct.dump(v)


# receive de-serialized binary string from DB or network 
copy = ProtobufNestedStruct.load(serialized)

expect(copy).to eql(obj)

where obj can be an instance of one of the supported types.

You can use it to generate code for serialization and deserialization in any programming language supported by Protobuf.

• https://github.com/arkency/protobuf-nested-struct/blob/master/lib/protobuf_nested_struct/struct.proto

• bundle install
• bundle exec rspec

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/arkency/protobuf-nested-struct

• https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/07b9238a1c03ef0351bcb4ca57d773eb7b7c5824/src/google/protobuf/struct.proto
• https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/9497a657d577ebda0272711651c3dcdda3a4ac35/ruby/lib/google/protobuf/well_known_types.rb#L149
• https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/9497a657d577ebda0272711651c3dcdda3a4ac35/ruby/tests/well_known_types_test.rb#L35

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