| Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format |
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| [](https://travis-ci.org/google/protobuf) |
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| Copyright 2008 Google Inc. |
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| This directory contains conformance tests for testing completeness and |
| correctness of Protocol Buffers implementations. These tests are designed |
| to be easy to run against any Protocol Buffers implementation. |
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| This directory contains the tester process `conformance-test`, which |
| contains all of the tests themselves. Then separate programs written |
| in whatever language you want to test communicate with the tester |
| program over a pipe. |
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| Before running any of these tests, make sure you run `make` in the base |
| directory to build `protoc`, since all the tests depend on it. |
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| $ make |
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| Then to run the tests against the C++ implementation, run: |
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| $ cd conformance && make test_cpp |
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| More tests and languages will be added soon! |
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| Testing other Protocol Buffer implementations |
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| To run these tests against a new Protocol Buffers implementation, write a |
| program in your language that uses the protobuf implementation you want |
| to test. This program should implement the testing protocol defined in |
| [conformance.proto](https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/conformance/conformance.proto). |
| This is designed to be as easy as possible: the C++ version is only |
| 150 lines and is a good example for what this program should look like |
| (see [conformance_cpp.cc](https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/conformance/conformance_cpp.cc)). |
| The program only needs to be able to read from stdin and write to stdout. |
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| Portability |
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| Note that the test runner currently does not work on Windows. Patches |
| to fix this are welcome! (But please get in touch first to settle on |
| a general implementation strategy). |
