1 // Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 // Package text implements the text format for protocol buffers. 6 // This package has no semantic understanding for protocol buffers and is only 7 // a parser and composer for the format. 8 // 9 // There is no formal specification for the protobuf text format, as such the 10 // C++ implementation (see google::protobuf::TextFormat) is the reference 11 // implementation of the text format. 12 // 13 // This package is neither a superset nor a subset of the C++ implementation. 14 // This implementation permits a more liberal grammar in some cases to be 15 // backwards compatible with the historical Go implementation. 16 // Future parsings unique to Go should not be added. 17 // Some grammars allowed by the C++ implementation are deliberately 18 // not implemented here because they are considered a bug by the protobuf team 19 // and should not be replicated. 20 // 21 // The Go implementation should implement a sufficient amount of the C++ 22 // grammar such that the default text serialization by C++ can be parsed by Go. 23 // However, just because the C++ parser accepts some input does not mean that 24 // the Go implementation should as well. 25 // 26 // The text format is almost a superset of JSON except: 27 // - message keys are not quoted strings, but identifiers 28 // - the top-level value must be a message without the delimiters 29 package text 30