This project is moved to https://github.com/Atry/protoc-gen-as3

What is it?

protoc-gen-as3 is a Protocol Buffers plugin for ActionScript 3.

This project aims to support Protocol Buffers in ActionScript 3 with minimum API and best performance. protoc-gen-as3's serialize/deserialize performance is near native AMF's writeObject/readObject, although protoc-gen-as3 runs in AVM2 while writeObject/readObject runs natively.

How to contribute?

Your contribution is welcome. I highly recommend that you clone, hack, and tell me what you've done.

Features

I have implemented almost all protobuf features (more than any other protobuf's AS3 implementation) in protoc-gen-as3: * All basic types * Nested messages * Enumerations * Packed and non-packed repeated fields * Extensions * RPC services * Custom options for services and methods * ActionScript metadata tag generation: * Bindable * RemoteClass * Text format * Unknown fields

Unsupported features

These features are supported by Google's C++/Java/Python implementation, but not in protoc-gen-as3: * Groups (a deprecated feature) * Custom options for messages, enums and files

How to use it?

Unlike other protobuf's as3 compilers, protoc-gen-as3 does not require you to modify original protobuf's source code. You can just use protoc binary (version 2.3+) with this plugin to generate ActionScript 3 source code:

protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-as3=path/to/protoc-gen-as3[.bat]--as3_out=output-path your.proto

Then, you can use the generated files to serialize and deserialize in protobuf format by invoking mergeFrom() and writeTo() method.

Before compiling, don't forget to let your ActionScript 3 compiler include protobuf.swc and the generated source files.

See AdvancedUsage and ASDoc for more information.