Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets

Getting Started (Give me the speed I don't care about the rest)

Install the protoc-gen-gofast binary

go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gofast

Use it to generate faster marshaling and unmarshaling go code for you protocol buffers.

protoc --gofast_out=. myproto.proto

Getting started (I have heard about fields without pointers and more code generation)

Other binaries are also included:

protoc-gen-gogofast (same as gofast, but imports gogoprotobuf)
protoc-gen-gogofaster (same as gogofast, without XXX_unrecognized, less pointer fields)
protoc-gen-gogoslick (same as gogofaster, but with generated string, gostring and equal methods)

Getting started (I want more customization power over fields, speed, other serialization formats and tests, etc.)

Please visit the homepage for more documentation.

Installation

To install it, you must first have Go (at least version 1.2.2) installed (see http://golang.org/doc/install).

Next, install the standard protocol buffer implementation from https://github.com/google/protobuf; you must be running version 2.3, 2.4.1, 2.5, 2.6 or 2.6.1.

Finally run:

go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto
go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/protoc-gen-gogo
go get github.com/gogo/protobuf/gogoproto

Proto3

Proto3 is supported, but since a specification has not been released yet, this support is limited.

GRPC

It works the same as golang/protobuf, simply specify the plugin. Here is an example using gofast:

protoc --gofast_out=plugins=grpc:. my.proto