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Re:Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust by kklisura on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:40AM (#25418760)
What are pdl files? Aren't protocol definition files in JSON?

(shameless plug) I guess I'll have to update my cdp java library. https://github.com/kklisura/chrome-devtools-java-client

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Re:Show HN: Chromiumoxid – An Async Headless Chrome API in Rust by matsche on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:01AM (#25419024)
> The pdl files are the canonical protocol definitions and are maintained manually by the devtools team [0].

The JSON protocol definition files are then in fact being generated from those pdl files. You find them mirrored in the devtools-protocol-repo [1]

[0] https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/ [1] https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/devtools-protocol/

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