0.2.1 release details

Updating from Froto 0.1.0

Core

• Froto.Core was reworked to provide serialization and deserialization of
  all supported wire types and to minimize buffer copying.
  • Code depending on Froto.Core.IO will need to be rewritten to use the
    following modules and types:
    • Froto.Core.WireFormat
    • Froto.Core.Encoding.RawField
    • Froto.Core.ZeroCopyBuffer and subclasses
  • Alternatively, the functions in the Froto.Core.Encoding.Serializer
    module can provide a slightly higher level of abstraction.
  • Or, see next.
• Added a framework for easily constructing serializable class types.
  • See Froto.Core.Encoding.MessageBase for an abstract base class which
    provides the serialization framework, and see
    Froto.Core.Test/ExampleProtoClass.fs for example usage.

Parser

• The parser now generates an AST based on Discriminated Unions, rather than
  objects. Froto.Parser.Ast (and the underlying parser) now support the full proto2
  and proto3 languages.

• The old primary class, Froto.Parser.ProtoAst.ProtoFile has been renamed to
  Froto.Parser.Model.ProtoFile and given static factory methods to simplify
  access from C#, VB.net, etc.

  Note that this model curently only supports a subset of the proto2 language.
  This will be expanded in later releases to fully support proto2 & proto3.

  • ProtoFile.ParseString(s:string)
  • ProtoFile.ParseStream(streamName:string, stream:System.IO.Stream)
  • ProtoFile.ParseFile(fileName:string)