Has anyone used protobuf for their rest apis?
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ursus
04/13/2020, 9:10 AMHas anyone used protobuf for their rest apis?
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tschuchort
04/13/2020, 10:20 AMREST is HTTP by definition, so no one probably.
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ursus
04/13/2020, 10:46 AMwhat? as payload format
ursus
04/13/2020, 10:50 AMas alternative to json
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streetsofboston
04/13/2020, 12:34 PMProtobuf has probably been used by quite a few folks and teams. There are, if you use Retrofit, Retfrofit converters for the format.
https://github.com/square/retrofit/tree/master/retrofit-converters/protobuf
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ursus
04/13/2020, 12:47 PMright, I mostly wanted a follow up question, that,
ursus
04/13/2020, 12:48 PMprotobuf is just a serialization format, but I've seen people declaring api methods, request params etc in sort of protobuf looking syntax
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Anders Oedlund
04/13/2020, 8:58 PMWould that be gRPC?
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kevindmoore
04/14/2020, 12:12 AMMy understanding is that the backend defines their API in a protobuf type language that can then be used to generate different outputs for the different platforms. (But my knowledge is pretty limited)
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ursus
04/14/2020, 1:06 PMI hear people talking about backend team publishing some binary which encodes all of api + models, is that grpc?
ursus
04/14/2020, 1:07 PMdoes grpc generates the retrofit stuff on android them also? I presume its some other tool right
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