Protobuf Talk: Populating and serializing a dog into bytes

main.go

package main

// to run: go run *.go

import (
	fmt "fmt"
	"log"

	proto "github.com/gogo/protobuf/proto"
)

func main() {

	d := &Dog{
		OwnerId:  proto.Int32(434434),
		Breed:    proto.String("Corgi"),
		HeightIn: proto.Float32(56.6),
		Color:    proto.String("Brown"),
	}

	b, err := proto.Marshal(d)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(b)
	fmt.Println(len(b))
}