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Third-party libraries: goprotobuf and beyond
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20 Apr 2010
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Tags: protobuf, community
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Andrew Gerrand
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* Introduction
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On March 24, Rob Pike announced [[http://code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/][goprotobuf]], the Go bindings of Google's data interchange format [[http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/overview.html][Protocol Buffers]], called protobufs for short. With this announcement, Go joins C++, Java, and Python as languages providing official protobuf implementations. This marks an important milestone in enabling the interoperability between existing systems and those built in Go.
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The goprotobuf project consists of two parts: a 'protocol compiler plugin' that generates Go source files that, once compiled, can access and manage protocol buffers; and a Go package that implements run-time support for encoding (marshaling), decoding (unmarshaling), and accessing protocol buffers.
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To use goprotobuf, you first need to have both Go and [[http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/][protobuf]] installed. You can then install the 'proto' package with [[http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/][goinstall]]:
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goinstall goprotobuf.googlecode.com/hg/proto
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And then install the protobuf compiler plugin:
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cd $GOROOT/src/pkg/goprotobuf.googlecode.com/hg/compiler
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make install
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For more detail see the project's [[http://code.google.com/p/goprotobuf/source/browse/README][README]] file.
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This is one of a growing list of third-party [[http://godashboard.appspot.com/package][Go projects]]. Since the announcement of goprotobuf, the X Go bindings have been spun off from the standard library to the [[http://code.google.com/p/x-go-binding/][x-go-binding]] project, and work has begun on a [[http://www.freetype.org/][Freetype]] port, [[http://code.google.com/p/freetype-go/][freetype-go]]. Other popular third-party projects include the lightweight web framework [[http://github.com/hoisie/web.go][web.go]], and the Go GTK bindings [[http://github.com/mattn/go-gtk][gtk-go]].
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We wish to encourage the development of other useful packages by the open source community. If you're working on something, don't keep it to yourself - let us know through our mailing list [[http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts][golang-nuts]].
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