Can I serialize/deserialize JSON from protocol buffers with C++?

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There are frameworks for Java and other languages that help connect protocol buffers to JSON, but I have not seen a native solution in C++.

Is there a library/framework that I can use to connect C++ protocol buffer objects to JSON?

Not really an answer, but this will depend hugely on the tools of each. It is trivial with protobuf-net, since that is designed to work with POCO/DTO objects, which most .NET JSON serializers will happily work with. But without that you might need to map it to a JSON-friendly DTO model. — Marc Gravell, Jun 09 '11 at 09:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '12 at 15:03

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pb2json is another library that can be used.

answered Sep 14 '12 at 15:03

Mike Ohlsen

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thanks, this is going to be useful in some other piece of work :) – mahonya Sep 17 '12 at 15:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

I'm developing one. I'm using the protobuf's reflection mechanism to parse any generated protobuf. Here http://corbasim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/protobuf2json_exported.zip you can find an initial implementation of this idea. It currently just parse string fields, but I want to support any type as soon as possible.

For a message Foo:

message Foo {
   optional string text = 1;
}

it can parse instances of Foo by this way:

Foo foo;

const std::string json_foo = "{\"text\": \"Hello world\"}";

protobuf2json::json::parse(foo, json_foo)

By the same way, I want to write a JSON serializer from protobuf generated types.

There is a similar question here:

C++ Protobuf to/from JSON conversion

Can I serialize/deserialize JSON from protocol buffers with C++?

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