Using Protobuf Files as Reference Libraries
Explore how to extend Protobuf functionality by creating reference libraries that contain shared message types and enums. Understand importing these libraries into main Protobuf files and adapting C# code to use packages, enabling reusable and maintainable gRPC message structures across client and server applications.
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Programming languages allow developers to create sharable components, such as libraries, that can be imported into any software package. This is a very useful feature that allows a common functionality to be shared between different applications. This way, if we want to implement a specific functionality in our application that already exists in a separate module or library, we can just import this module or library into our application. We don't have to write it from scratch.
Protobuf can do it too. A Protobuf file can refer to other Protobuf files and import custom data types from it, such as message and enum. We've already seen this feature when we imported the packages with the well-known types ...