Protobuf Compilation Guide

This project uses Protocol Buffers to define the messages used by ecapture. The generated Go code lives under protobuf/gen, and the source .proto files are under protobuf/proto.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following tools installed:

• protoc (Protocol Buffers compiler)
• protoc-gen-go
• protoc-gen-go-grpc

The current generated files were built with:

protoc-gen-go v1.36.6
protoc        v6.32.1

It is recommended to use these versions or newer when regenerating the code.

How to Re-Generate Go Code

From the repository root directory, run:

protoc --proto_path=protobuf/proto \
	--go_out=protobuf/gen --go_opt=paths=source_relative \
	--go-grpc_out=protobuf/gen --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative \
	protobuf/proto/v1/ecaptureq.proto

This command will:

• Read .proto files from protobuf/proto
• Generate Go files into protobuf/gen with paths relative to the source
• Generate both regular protobuf messages and gRPC service stubs (if any)

After regenerating, commit the updated files under protobuf/gen/v1.