# `datafusion-proto`: Apache DataFusion Protobuf Serialization / Deserialization This crate contains code to convert Apache [DataFusion] plans to and from bytes, which can be useful for sending plans over the network, for example when building a distributed query engine. See [API Docs] for details and examples. [datafusion]: https://datafusion.apache.org [api docs]: http://docs.rs/datafusion-proto/latest