Building RESTful Web services with Go

Summary

In this chapter, we started our journey by understanding the basics of protocol buffers. Then, we came across the protocol buffers language, which has many types such as scalar, enumeration, and repeated types. We saw a few analogies between JSON and protocol buffers. We learned why protocol buffers are more memory efficient than the plain JSON data format. We defined a sample protocol buffer by simulating a network interface. The message keyword is used to define messages in a protocol buffer.

Next, we installed the protoc compiler to compile our files written in the protocol buffer language. Then, we saw how to compile a .proto file to generate a .go file. This Go file has all the structs and interfaces for the main program to consume. ...