prost-helper

Two crates are provided to facilitate prost to better work with protobuf:

• prost-serde: help you to generate serde compatible code with prost and protobuf files. More in documentation.
• prost-helper: macros and functions to facilitate prost. More in documentation.

Using prost-helper in a Cargo Project

First, add prost-serde and prost-helper to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
prost-helper = "0.1"

[build-dependencies]
prost-serde = "0.1"

Then copy the default_build_config.json to your project and customize it. See more information in prost-serde/examples/build_config.json. Then you could add this in your build.rs:

fn main() {
    let json = include_str!("path/to/your/build_config.json");
    build_with_serde(json);
}

That's it!

If you'd like to generate the implementation for From trait to Vec<u8>, or TryFrom trait from Vec<u8> to protobuf data structure, you could use prost_into_vec! and vec_try_into_prost! macros. Here is an example:

use prost::Message;
use std::convert::TryInto;

#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Message)]
pub struct Hello {
    #[prost(string, tag = "1")]
    pub msg: String,
}

// implement the traits
prost_into_vec!(Hello, 32);
vec_try_into_prost!(Hello);


let hello = Hello::default();

// use `Into` to convert message to `Vec<u8>`
let data: Vec<u8> = hello.into();

// use `TryInto` to convert `Vec<u8>` back to message
let hello_result: Result<Hello, prost::DecodeError> = data.try_into();

Have fun with prost!

License

prost-helper is distributed under the terms of MIT.

See LICENSE for details.

Copyright 2021 Tyr Chen