Go: Introduction to Protobuf: Messages

In it’s most basic ways, protocol buffers or protobufs are an approach to serialize structured data with minimal overhead. They require that the data structures be known and compatible between the client and server, unlike JSON where the structure itself is part of the encoding.

Protobufs and Go

The most basic protobuf message definition would look something like this:

message ListThreadRequest { // session info string sessionID = 1; // pagination uint32 pageNumber = 2; uint32 pageSize...