#15522: Write Protobufs for any BridgeDB data which must be sent over a network or
IPC channel
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Reporter: isis | Owner: isis
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: BridgeDB | Version:
Keywords: bridgedb-db, metrics, protobuf | Actual Points:
Parent ID: | Points:
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BridgeDB should have [https://developers.google.com/protocol-
buffers/docs/overview Protobufs] for any data structures which must be
sent over either network or IPC channels. This includes data such as
bridges parsed from Stem (which should be sent to the database manager
from #12031), any data which is going to be exported to CollecTor (e.g. if
we were to redesign a new pool "assignments.log" format like for #2755 and
exported that), and any data which the client-side Social Distributor
(#7520) built into a Tor Browser extension plans to send to BridgeDB and
vice-versa.
Protocol buffers have had extensive security reviews, are used extensively
in many projects, and would provide automatic code generation for
serialisers/marshallers for Python/Java/C++/C/Go, meaning that, for
example, both Metrics and BridgeDB could use the same generated code to
read the same data format.
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