Question

In protobuf-net can i have a byte field? Is a byte array field part of the protocol buffers spec?

Basically I want to transmit various objects over the wire. In this case the byte[] Payload will be another protocol buffer serialised object. I do this so i don’t need to specificy type

thanks

public sealed class CellUpdateTransmission
{
    public int RowIndex { get; private set; }
    public int CellIndex { get; private set; }          
    public byte[] Payload {get;private set;}

Answer 1

yes you can. In your second phase, move the bytes into a memory stream and then deserialize as per normal.

            byte[] Payload= datafromsomewhere;
            var ms = new MemoryStream(Payload);
            var req = Serializer.Deserialize<AbcClass>(ms);