protobuffctl

• protobuffctl offers an API that enables you to automate all protobuf functions.
• It stores all Components in the Componentregistry.
• Quickly create new message types, fields, services, methods and enums using the API and cli commands.
• Automatically generates the corresponding protobuf files when making changes to the protofiles.
• Roll back to old protofile, or to an registry state using historical .config file just like with version control.
• Preview the Protofile-Code before actually building it.
• Create your own User Interface and manage Protocollbuffers using the API and input events.

Getting Started

Docs: API

Install:

npm i protobuffctl

How to

Protobuffctl has a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to manage components and watchers for a project, possibly related to Protocol Buffers (protobuf). This documentation provides an overview of the available commands and their usage. The the export module functions do exactly the same

Flowchart

graph TD;
    CLI["💻 Command Line Interface"]-->Api;
CLI["💻 Command Line Interface"]-->Daemon;
    Api-->WatcherManager;
    Api-->ComponentRegistry;
    WatcherManager-->FileWatcher;
    FileWatcher-->Api;
    Api-->ProtobuffFile;
    Api-->ProtoUser;
    Api-->ProtoFile;
    ProtoFile-->ProtobuffFile;
    ProtoFile-->ComponentRegistry;
    ProtobuffFile-->ProtoUser;
    ProtobuffFile-->ComponentRegistry;
    ProtoUser-->ComponentRegistry;
  Daemon-->Api;
    subgraph protobuffctl [🏢 protobuffctl]
        Api;
        WatcherManager;
        FileWatcher;
        ComponentRegistry;
    end
    subgraph components [🔧 Components]
        ProtoFile;
        ProtobuffFile;
        ProtoUser;
    end
    style components fill:#f9d71c,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style ComponentRegistry fill:#f9d71c,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style components fill:#f9d71c,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style ComponentRegistry fill:#f9d71c,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style Daemon fill:#f9d71c,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px

Comming up

• 🚧 Set up File Watcher to monitor your proto files for any changes. => Rescan and update the Componentregistry.
• 🚧 Get complete visual feedback for all related methods, components, and files directly with our VC CODE EXTENSION.

Update

• Fast Saving and Loading: Added a daemon to keep the main object alive, including the registry.
• Protobuff Registry: Protobuff registry and creation are working fine.
• Export to JSON: All components are stored and can be reproduced. See example JSON.
• New Services, Types, Enums: Create new services, types, enums via CLI command by copying from the registry or via command.
• automated Proto-gen: Related protobuf files will automatically get compiled to their target folders using the protoc-helper repo.
• this thing works, which is nice. complete api to edit your protobuff projects and files. you can set every important value via cli know and ill add support to get all protofiles from certain folders.
• you can apply changes via api know -> registry is getting updated -> protofiles are getting updates -> protobuff-files are getting upddated <- i actually need to implement that :) but my db was created as a wrapper for protobuffjs, so i just need a bridge/method

TODO

files and object cant be redundant, however if failures arise due to the user, or missing drives, the config/save-file can get damaged which can lead to weird behaviour when automated processes are using the faulty objects, so i decided to add a health-state field for each object. unhealthy files will be ignored and not further be processed, but also the main statehandler wont delete that file, if it may become usuable again later.

• Health State Field: Add a health-state field for each object to handle failures and misconfigurations.
• Health Check: Add a health check to ensure the integrity of the objects.
• ~~Merge Function: Add a merge function for the user to copy fields back over to a healthy file if there were misconfigurations.~~