csharp/src/AddressBook/SampleUsage.cs

#region Copyright notice and license
// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.  All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at
// https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd
#endregion
    
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Google.Protobuf.Examples.AddressBook
{
    internal class SampleUsage
    {
        private static void Main()
        {
            byte[] bytes;
            // Create a new person
            Person person = new Person
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "Foo",
                Email = "foo@bar",
                Phones = { new Person.Types.PhoneNumber { Number = "555-1212" } }
            };
            using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
            {
                // Save the person to a stream
                person.WriteTo(stream);
                bytes = stream.ToArray();
            }
            Person copy = Person.Parser.ParseFrom(bytes);

            AddressBook book = new AddressBook
            {
                People = { copy }
            };
            bytes = book.ToByteArray();
            // And read the address book back again
            AddressBook restored = AddressBook.Parser.ParseFrom(bytes);
            // The message performs a deep-comparison on equality:
            if (restored.People.Count != 1 || !person.Equals(restored.People[0]))
            {
                throw new Exception("There is a bad person in here!");
            }
        }
    }
}