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diff --git a/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/doc.go b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0ce8d6fb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/google.golang.org/protobuf/internal/encoding/text/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. +// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style +// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. + +// Package text implements the text format for protocol buffers. +// This package has no semantic understanding for protocol buffers and is only +// a parser and composer for the format. +// +// There is no formal specification for the protobuf text format, as such the +// C++ implementation (see google::protobuf::TextFormat) is the reference +// implementation of the text format. +// +// This package is neither a superset nor a subset of the C++ implementation. +// This implementation permits a more liberal grammar in some cases to be +// backwards compatible with the historical Go implementation. +// Future parsings unique to Go should not be added. +// Some grammars allowed by the C++ implementation are deliberately +// not implemented here because they are considered a bug by the protobuf team +// and should not be replicated. +// +// The Go implementation should implement a sufficient amount of the C++ +// grammar such that the default text serialization by C++ can be parsed by Go. +// However, just because the C++ parser accepts some input does not mean that +// the Go implementation should as well. +// +// The text format is almost a superset of JSON except: +// * message keys are not quoted strings, but identifiers +// * the top-level value must be a message without the delimiters +package text |