protobuf2和3同时安装,Protobuf向后兼容性以及Proto3与Proto2-优快云博客

本文讨论了Protocol Buffers版本升级至Proto3后与旧版Proto2之间的兼容性问题。尽管IDL语言本身不再完全兼容，但由于wire format基本保持一致，只要tag编号相同，编码方式就不会改变。这意味着即使使用了Proto3，仍然可以与Proto2系统进行通信。

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One of selling points of Protobuf was backward compatibility, i.e. developers can evolve format, and older clients can still use it.

Now with new Protobuf version called proto3, the IDL language itself is not compatible as such things as options, required where dropped, new syntax for enuns, no extention.

Does it mean that using proto3 there's no way to produce binary that older proto2 would read/understand also?

It is like you have to continue to use proto2. If you start using proto3, you can't talk to older systems, or have to rewrite, recompile all those .protos

That is compatibility break in the first place.

解决方案

Yes, if some of your systems are proto2 based, it is probably best to keep using proto2. In my opinion, proto3 does not introduce many new features and most libraries will continue supporting proto2.

However, the wire format is mostly compatible. As long as the tag number is the same, the encoding remains the same. The required/optional specifiers do not affect the encoding, they are only checks that are performed after decoding.