Completed work and testing for manually reading/writing start/end message

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedInputStream.cs b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedInputStream.cs
index 1d9d26e3..a3c0f30b 100644
--- a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedInputStream.cs
+++ b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedInputStream.cs
@@ -46,6 +46,24 @@ namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers
     public interface ICodedInputStream

     {

         /// <summary>

+        /// Reads any message initialization data expected from the input stream

+        /// </summary>

+        /// <remarks>

+        /// This is primarily used by text formats and unnecessary for protobuffers' own

+        /// binary format.  The API for MessageStart/End was added for consistent handling

+        /// of output streams regardless of the actual writer implementation.

+        /// </remarks>

+        void ReadMessageStart();

+        /// <summary>

+        /// Reads any message finalization data expected from the input stream

+        /// </summary>

+        /// <remarks>

+        /// This is primarily used by text formats and unnecessary for protobuffers' own

+        /// binary format.  The API for MessageStart/End was added for consistent handling

+        /// of output streams regardless of the actual writer implementation.

+        /// </remarks>

+        void ReadMessageEnd();

+        /// <summary>

         /// Attempt to read a field tag, returning false if we have reached the end

         /// of the input data.

         /// </summary>