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Protocol Buffers Handbook

You're reading from   Protocol Buffers Handbook Getting deeper into Protobuf internals and its usage

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124672
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Clément Jean Clément Jean
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Serialization Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: Protobuf is a Language 3. Chapter 3: Describing Data with Protobuf Text Format 4. Chapter 4: The Protobuf Compiler 5. Chapter 5: Serialization Internals 6. Chapter 6: Schema Evolution over Time 7. Chapter 7: Implementing the Address Book in Go 8. Chapter 8: Implementing the Address Book in Python 9. Chapter 9: Developing a Protoc Plugin in Golang 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Build 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding entries

In this section, let’s focus on adding a Person or a Company contact to the AddressBook. We will start with the business logic (pkg) and then we will link the business logic to the CLI part of our application (cmd).

The business logic

We will first add a new file under pkg/addressbook called add.go. This will contain all the code related to the addition of contact. In this file, we will have two functions: AddPerson and AddCompany. These functions are similar; however, they receive different information as parameters. Let’s first talk about the similarities between these two functions.

The first similarity is that both functions take db as a parameter. Once again, we will use an interface to keep this code as generic as possible. This time, however, we will use the io.ReadWriter interface since we need both Read and Write functions. So, we have the following (pkg/addressbook/add.go):

func AddPerson(db io.ReadWriter, ...) error {
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