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Protocol Buffers Handbook

You're reading from  Protocol Buffers Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124672
Pages 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Clément Jean Clément Jean
Profile icon Clément Jean

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Serialization Primer 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf is a Language 3. Chapter 3: Describing Data with Protobuf Text Format 4. Chapter 4: The Protobuf Compiler 5. Chapter 5: Serialization Internals 6. Chapter 6: Schema Evolution over Time 7. Chapter 7: Implementing the Address Book in Go 8. Chapter 8: Implementing the Address Book in Python 9. Chapter 9: Developing a Protoc Plugin in Golang 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Build 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Quiz

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. What is backward compatibility?
    1. The ability to interact with newer versions of our app
    2. The ability to interact with older versions of our app
  2. What is forward compatibility?
    1. The ability to interact with newer versions of our app
    2. The ability to interact with older versions of our app
  3. Would there be any backward compatibility problem if, instead of changing the field type from uint32 to uint64, we were changing from uint64 to uint32?
    1. Yes, we might have an overflow
    2. No, all uint32 values are included in uint64
  4. Would there be any forward compatibility problem if, instead of changing the field type from uint32 to uint64, we were changing from uint64 to uint32?
    1. Yes, we might have an overflow
    2. No, all uint32 values are included in uint64
  5. What could potentially happen if we changed a field type from int32 to uint64 (hint: think in both forward and backward compatibility terms)?
    1. Negative values will be encoded...
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