Eclipse plugin for working with protobuf

Question

Protocol Buffers (protobuf) are a way of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format.

There\'s plugin for Netbeans, but I cannot find one for Eclipse.

Answer 1

Using m2eclipse and directions from Issue 81/Comment 6 for a a protobuf maven plugin, it works pretty well.

The only trick that doesn't work exactly is the "generated-sources/protobuf" will be created following the instructions is not automatically added to source folder in eclipse. Do this manually and you're g2g.

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• how-do-i-get-support-for-gpb-in-eclipse
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