flatbuffers_encoding_decoding

FlatBuffers Usage Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to use FlatBuffers for C++ and Python. FlatBuffers is an efficient cross-platform serialization library that can be used to serialize data in a binary format.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

• Git
• CMake
• g++
• Python (Python 3 recommended)

Getting Started

1. Clone the FlatBuffers Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/google/flatbuffers.git

2. Use CMAKE:

   cd flatbuffers && cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"

3. cd flatbuffers && make

4. cd flatbuffers && sudo ln -s /content/flatbuffers/flatc /usr/local/bin/flatc

5. cd flatbuffers && chmod +x /content/flatbuffers/flatc

6. Make the c++ headers for corresponding schema file.

   flatc -c client.fbs

7. g++ command to compile encrypt.cpp file and execute it

   g++ -I flatbuffers/include -o e encrypt.cpp && ./e 

8. Make Python generated files for it's client.fbs

   flatc --python client.fbs 

9. Decoder to read/deserialize the bytes.

   python decoder.py