Building RESTful Web services with Go

Scalar values

The types we assigned to the fields in the networkInterface message are scalar types. These types are similar to Go types and exactly match with them. For other programming languages, they will be converted to the respective types. A protobuf is designed keeping Go in mind, so the majority of types such as int, int32, int64, string, and bool are exactly the same, but a few vary. They are:

Go type	Protobuf type
float32	float
float64	double
uint32	fixed32
uint64	fixed64
[]byte	bytes

These things should be kept in mind while defining messages in protbuf files. Apart from that, we are free to use other Go types as normal scalar types. Default values are the values that will be filled with those types if the user ...