In protobuf-net can i have a byte field?

In protobuf-net can i have a byte field? Is a byte array field part of the protocol buffers spec?开发者_如何转开发

Basically I want to transmit various objects over the wire. In this case the byte[] Payload will be another protocol buffer serialised object. I do this so i don't need to specificy type

thanks

public sealed class CellUpdateTransmission
{
    public int RowIndex { get; private set; }
    public int CellIndex { get; private set; }          
    public byte[] Payload {get;private set;}

yes you can. In your second phase, move the bytes into a memory stream and then deserialize as per normal.

            byte[] Payload= datafromsomewhere;
            var ms = new MemoryStream(Payload);
            var req = Serializer.Deserialize<AbcClass>(ms);

Yes, both byte and byte[] are supported; the latter maps to bytes in the .proto spec. This is actually the same as how a sub-message is normally represented anyway. Just let the serializer know about the member (most simply: by adding an attribute such as [ProtoMember(3)]).