Does golang provide an easy way to output human readable protobuf

Question

Is there a good way to get a human readable string representation of protobuf objects in golang? Something equivalent to https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/cpp/google.protobuf.message#Message.DebugString?

I am using https://github.com/golang/protobuf.

Answer 1

I believe you're looking for proto.MarshalTextString.

p := &example.Test{
  Label: proto.String("this"),
  Reps:  []int64{4, 3, 2, 1},
  InnerTest: &example.Test_InnerTest{
    InnerLabel: proto.String("is the end"),
  },
}

fmt.Println(proto.MarshalTextString(p))

You can see an example in the Go package test.