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

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedOutputStream.cs b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedOutputStream.cs
index 2c324792..a686fed1 100644
--- a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedOutputStream.cs
+++ b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ICodedOutputStream.cs
@@ -52,6 +52,24 @@ namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers
     public interface ICodedOutputStream : IDisposable

     {

         /// <summary>

+        /// Writes any message initialization data needed to the output 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 WriteMessageStart();

+        /// <summary>

+        /// Writes any message finalization data needed to the output 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 WriteMessageEnd();

+        /// <summary>

         /// Indicates that all temporary buffers be written to the final output.

         /// </summary>

         void Flush();