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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by ctz on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:01PM (#11028739)

Here's a use case where protobuf is terrible because it isn't self-describing: write a wireshark plugin which parses and pretty-prints protobuf messages for human consumption.

You can't, because such a plugin would have to have a-priori knowledge of the schema in use.

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Re:Show HN: ION, a JSON alternative – Versatile, compact, fa... by VikingCoder on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:12PM (#11029368)

You mean something like this, which does exactly that?

https://code.google.com/archive/p/protobuf-wireshark/

Sure, you don't know the NAME of the field, but you can see the ID of it.

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