ed solution.</p>
<p>With protocol buffers, you write a <code>.proto</code> description of the data structure you wish to store. From that, the protocol buffer compiler creates compilable source code that implements automatic encoding and parsing of the protocol buffer data with an efficient binary format. The generated code provides getters and setters for the fields that make up a protocol buffer and takes care of the details of reading and writing the protocol buffer as a unit. Importantly, the protocol b