protoedit

Terminal-based protobuf data files editor.

Current version works as viewer, not all data type editable yet.

Command Line Interface

protoedit data.pb;format.proto;message_name

• data.pb - path to file in protobuf format
• format.proto - path to .proto file with data description
• message_name - name of the root message in .proto (optional)

Hotkeys

Up/Down - Navigate lines

Ctrl+Up/Down - Navigate field of a message

F2 - Save file

F4 - Change field sort order. Four variants available:

• Proto - field shown as in the order it written in the proto file. This is default mode.
• Wire - field shown as it readed in the binary data file. In this mode shown only data realy readed from the file (no default values).
• Name - filed sorted by its name.
• Id - filed sorted by numbers specified in the proto file.

The first char of sort mode is at the end of the top line.

F5/Enter - Expand/Collapse data

F10/Esc - Quit

Del - Delete data

Ins - Insert data

Limits

In the current version, the program may slow down with files larger than 10 thousand data items.

Examples

There are several example data files for testing the application in the 'resources' folder. Type protoedit filename.pb to open a file (or cargo run --release -- resources/filename.pb).

• ints.pb - simple integer data example
• str.pb - multiline string example
• bytes.pb - a field with 1000 random bytes
• mega.pb - 1 million random values in three-level structures
• test_data_1.pb - simple nested data example