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diff --git a/upb/google/README b/upb/google/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a237583 --- /dev/null +++ b/upb/google/README @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +This directory contains code to interoperate with Google's official +Protocol Buffers release. Since it doesn't really have a name +besides "protobuf," calling this directory "google" seems like the +least confusing option. + +We support writing into protobuf's generated classes (and hopefully +reading too, before long). We support both the open source protobuf +release and the Google-internal version of the same code. The two +live in different namespaces, and the internal version supports some +features that are not supported in the open-source release. Also, the +internal version includes the legacy "proto1" classes which we must +support; thankfully this is mostly relegated to its own separate file. + +Our functionality requires the full google::protobuf::Message +interface; we rely on reflection so we know what fields to read/write +and where to put them, so we can't support MessageLite. |