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Description
Provide serialization and de-serialization of different formats based on Google’s protobuf Message. Enables overriding the default (byte array) output to text based formats such as XML, JSON and HTML.
##Example For XML output, use XmlFormat
Message someProto = SomeProto.getDefaultInstance(); XmlFormat xmlFormat = new XmlFormat(); String asXml = xmlFormat.printToString(someProto);
For XML input, use XmlFormat
Message.Builder builder = SomeProto.newBuilder(); String asXml = _load xml document from a source_; XmlFormat xmlFormat = new XmlFormat(); xmlFormat.merge(asXml, builder);
For Json output, use JsonFormat
Message someProto = SomeProto.getDefaultInstance(); JsonFormat jsonFormat = new JsonFormat(); String asJson = jsonFormat.printToString(someProto);
For Json input, use JsonFormat
Message.Builder builder = SomeProto.newBuilder(); String asJson = _load json document from a source_; JsonFormat jsonFormat = new JsonFormat(); jsonFormat.merge(asJson, builder);
For HTML output, use HtmlFormat
Message someProto = SomeProto.getDefaultInstance(); HtmlFormat htmlFormat = new HtmlFormat(); String asHtml = htmlFormat.printToString(someProto);