I want to store a bunch of protobuf messages in a file, and read them later.
In java, I can just use 'writeDelimitedTo' and 'parseDelimitedFrom' to read and write to a file. However, I want to read it in Python, which only seems to have a 'ParseFromString' method.
Some SO questions are very similar, such as, Parsing Protocol Buffers, written in Java and read in Python, but that is only for a single message: not for multiple.
From the proto guide it is written that you need to deal yourself with the size of your message:
Streaming Multiple Messages
If you want to write multiple messages to a single file or stream, it is up to you to keep track of where one message ends and the next begins. The Protocol Buffer wire format is not self-delimiting, so protocol buffer parsers cannot determine where a message ends on their own. The easiest way to solve this problem is to write the size of each message before you write the message itself. When you read the messages back in, you read the size, then read the bytes into a separate buffer, then parse from that buffer. (If you want to avoid copying bytes to a separate buffer, check out the CodedInputStream class (in both C++ and Java) which can be told to limit reads to a certain number of bytes.)
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/techniques
A simple solution could be for you to serialize each proto in base64, on a new line in your file.
Doing so, it would be pretty easy on python to parse and use them.
