Protocol Buffer to TypeScript Plugin

Protocol Buffer is copyright with Google Inc. https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/

Protocol Buffer to TypeScript Plugin is the extension of the Protocol Compiler to compile the proto files into corresponding TypeScript code.

Overview

Protocol Buffers (a.k.a., protobuf) are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. You can find protobuf's documentation on the Google Developers site.

This repository contains the TypeScript extension that implements Protocol Buffers functionality in TypeScript.

Consider file test.proto,

    syntax = "proto3";

    package test;

    message Msg{
    string name = 1;
    }

Compiling the file into TypeScript code,

    import { Observable } from 'rxjs';

    export interface Msg {
        name: string;
    }

Installations

1. Make sure you have Python 2.x. If in doubt, run:

   $ python -V
   

2. If you don't have the protocol compiler, protoc installed, install a binary distribution of protoc, and the simplest way to install it is to download a pre-built binary.

    $ protoc --version
   

3. Download or clone the Python Protocol Buffers runtime library

4. Build and run the tests:

   $ python setup.py build
   $ python setup.py test
   

5. And Install:

   $ python setup.py install
   

6. Now, clone our plugin and you are all done.

Setup and Run

For Windows

1. Set the interpreter to the plugin by adding your Python 2.x path 'C:\Python27\python.exe' in the begining of the tsPlugin.py file #!C:\Python27\python.exe

2. Now, edit the runPlugin.bat file to make the python file executable.

3. Now, generate your TypeScript code using,

   $ protoc -I <Project_Path> -I <Proto_File_Directory_Path> <Proto_Files_Path> --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=<Executable_File_Path> --custom_out=<Output_Directory_Path>
   

   Like:

   $ pwd
   ..\protobuf-to-typescript
   $ protoc -I . -I examples\test examples\test\test.proto --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=runPlugin.bat --custom_out=examples\output`
   

Fow Linux

1. Set the interpreter to the plugin by adding your Python 2.x path '/usr/bin/env python' in the begining of the tsPlugin.py file #!/usr/bin/env python

2. Now, generate your TypeScript code using,

   $ protoc -I <Project_Path> -I <Proto_File_Directory_Path> <Proto_Files_Path> --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=<Plugin_Path> --custom_out=<Output_Directory_Path>
   

   Like:

   $ protoc -I . -I examples\test examples/test/test.proto --plugin=protoc-gen-custom=tsPlugin.py --custom_out=examples/output
   

   or

   Use the generator.sh script to compile all the proto files in a directory

Contributing

Changes and improvements are more than welcome! Feel free to fork and open a pull request. And Please make your changes in a specific branch and request to pull into master! If you can, please make sure the game fully works before sending the PR, as that will help speed up the process.

License

Protocol Buffer to TypeScript Plugin is licensed under the MIT license.