Try protojs serials : C. return protocol buffer from web service

I will implement a web app using CppCMS framework. Yes, it's a C++ framework.
The basic idea is to generate the binary stream, send it via response to browser, set the content type to
application/x-protobuf.

This post doesn't describe the usage of CppCMS. Please refer to cppcms.com if needed.

In web service constructor, map the url request to test_group member function.

dispatcher().assign("/testGroup" , &kaimei_web_site::test_group , this);

Some part  of test_group codes list here:


void kaimei_web_site::test_group() {
  kaimei::response res;
  try {
    ....
    response().content_type("application/x-protobuf");
    freebird::group g;
    g.set_id("1");
    g.set_name("a");
    g.set_description("d");
    g.set_device_number("5");
    g.SerializePartialToOstream(&response().out());

  } catch(std::exception const& ex) {
    ...
  }
}

That's all. Now launch browser, access the web site using /testGroup path. Browser will download a file called testGroup.


Unfortunately, the protojs can't parse the stream transferred from server.
Chrome always says:ArrayBuffer values are deprecated ...

I will update this post later.