官网:https://github.com/google/protobuf
环境:windows,java
1. protobuf概述
protobuf是Google开发一种数据描述格式,能够将结构化数据序列化,可用于数据存储,通信协议等方面。
protobuf是以二进制来存储数据的。相对于JSON和XML具有以下优点:
- 简洁
- 体积小:消息大小只需要XML的1/10 ~ 1/3
- 速度快:解析速度比XML快20 ~ 100倍
- 使用protobuf的编译器,可以生成更容易在编程中使用的数据访问代码
- 更好的兼容性,protobuf设计的一个原则就是要能够很好的支持向下或向上兼容
2. 下载,安装
在使用protobuf之前,需要安装protobuf编译器和运行时环境。
由于protobuf是跨平台,跨语言的,所以需要下载和安装对应版本的编译器和运行时依赖。
(1)protobuf编译器下载:https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases。
对于windows平台,下载:protoc-${version}-win32.zip。在此以protoc-3.3.0-win32.zip为例。
解压到指定目录,如:D:\protoc-3.3.0-win32。添加到windows环境变量:D:\protoc-3.3.0-win32\bin。
(2)protobuf运行时下载:protobuf运行时环境是区分不同语言的,针对不同语言的安装方式不同。
下载protobuf到指定目录:git clone https://github.com/google/protobuf.git,如:D:\protobuf。
对于java语言而言,可以通过maven将protobuf运行时依赖安装到本地仓库,详见:https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/java。
需要注意的是,在执行:mvn install 之前,需要将protobuf编译器(在此即:D:\protoc-3.3.0-win32\bin\protoc.exe)拷贝到protobuf目录下的src路径下,即:D:\protobuf\src。
否则,在编译安装protobuf运行时环境时报错:
Execute failed: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program ...
cd D:\protobuf\java
mvn install(如果不想执行单元测试,可以执行:mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip=true)
将在maven本地仓库安装protobuf运行时依赖jar包(注意:下载protobuf编译器和运行时环境的版本要保持一致!在此下载的是最新版本:3.3.0),包括:
- protobuf-java: The core Java Protocol Buffers library. Most users only need this artifact.
- protobuf-lite: The lite version of core Java Protobuf Buffers library. It is a subset of the core library and is used together with the 'lite' code generator flag to reduce generated code size for mobile.
- protobuf-java-util: Utilities to work with protos. It contains JSON support as well as utilities to work with proto3 well-known types.
3. 使用protobuf
新建一个空的maven项目,并添加protobuf运行时依赖:
pom.xml:
<dependencies>
<!-- 添加protobuf运行时依赖 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
<artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
(1)新建protobuf数据描述文件:addressbook.proto
syntax = "proto2"; package tutorial; option java_package = "org.chench.test.protobuf";
option java_outer_classname = "AddressBookProtos"; message Person {
required string name = 1;
required int32 id = 2;
optional string email = 3; enum PhoneType {
MOBILE = 0;
HOME = 1;
WORK = 2;
} message PhoneNumber {
required string number = 1;
optional PhoneType type = 2 [default = HOME];
} repeated PhoneNumber phones = 4;
} message AddressBook {
repeated Person people = 1;
}
编译addressbook.proto,在windows控制台进入addressbook.proto文件所在目录路径下,执行如下编译操作:
protoc -I=. --java_out=. ./addressbook.proto
生成java class:org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.java,将生成的java文件拷贝到前面新建的maven项目中。
(2)保存protobuf序列化数据到文件
package org.chench.test.protobuf; import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintStream; import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.AddressBook;
import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.Person;
import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.Person.PhoneNumber;
import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.Person.PhoneType; /**
* 使用protobuf类示例: <br />
* 从控制台输入相关信息,然后将数据序列化到文件。
* @desc org.chench.test.protobuf.AddPerson
* @author chench9@lenovo.com
* @date 2017年6月7日
*/
public class AddPerson { static Person PromptForAddress(BufferedReader stdin,
PrintStream stdout) throws IOException {
Person.Builder person = Person.newBuilder(); stdout.print("Enter person ID: ");
person.setId(Integer.valueOf(stdin.readLine())); stdout.print("Enter name: ");
person.setName(stdin.readLine()); stdout.print("Enter email address (blank for none): ");
String email = stdin.readLine();
if(email.length() > 0) {
person.setEmail(email);
} while(true) {
stdout.print("Enter a phone number (or leave blank to finish): "); String number = stdin.readLine();
if(number.length() == 0) {
break;
} PhoneNumber.Builder phoneNumber = PhoneNumber.newBuilder();
phoneNumber.setNumber(number); stdout.print("Is this a mobile, home, or work phone? ");
String type = stdin.readLine();
if("mobile".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
phoneNumber.setType(PhoneType.MOBILE);
}else if("home".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
phoneNumber.setType(PhoneType.HOME);
}else if("work".equalsIgnoreCase(type)) {
phoneNumber.setType(PhoneType.WORK);
} person.addPhones(phoneNumber);
} return person.build();
} /**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
if (args.length != 1) {
System.err.println("Usage: AddPerson ADDRESS_BOOK_FILE");
System.exit(-1);
} AddressBook.Builder addressBook = AddressBook.newBuilder();
try {
// 从指定文件读取数据
addressBook.mergeFrom(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println(args[0] + ": File not found. Creating a new file.");
e.printStackTrace();
} addressBook.addPeople(PromptForAddress(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)),
System.out)); FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(args[0]);
addressBook.build().writeTo(out);
} }
(3)从protobuf序列化文件中读取之前保存进去的数据。
package org.chench.test.protobuf; import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException; import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.AddressBook;
import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.Person;
import org.chench.test.protobuf.AddressBookProtos.Person.PhoneNumber; /**
* 从protobuf序列化文件读取数据。
* @desc org.chench.test.protobuf.ListPeople
* @author chench9@lenovo.com
* @date 2017年6月7日
*/
public class ListPeople { static void Print(AddressBook addressBook) {
for(Person p : addressBook.getPeopleList()) {
System.out.println("Person ID: " + p.getId());
System.out.println(" Name: " + p.getName());
if (p.hasEmail()) {
System.out.println(" E-mail address: " + p.getEmail());
} for(PhoneNumber pn : p.getPhonesList()) {
switch (pn.getType()) {
case MOBILE:
System.out.print(" Mobile phone #: ");
break;
case HOME:
System.out.print(" Home phone #: ");
break;
case WORK:
System.out.print(" Work phone #: ");
break;
}
System.out.println(pn.getNumber());
}
}
} /**
* @param args
* @throws IOException
* @throws FileNotFoundException
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
if (args.length != 1) {
System.err.println("Usage: ListPeople ADDRESS_BOOK_FILE");
System.exit(-1);
} try {
AddressBook addressBook = AddressBook.parseFrom(new FileInputStream(args[0]));
Print(addressBook);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println(args[0] + ": File not exists");
e.printStackTrace();
} } }
完毕!示例代码详见:https://git.oschina.net/cchanghui/test-protobuf.git
【参考】
http://www.iloveandroid.net/2015/10/08/studyPtorobuf/ protobuf简单使用
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/javatutorial protobuf官方手册