ProtoJSON Format

Protobuf supports a canonical encoding in JSON, making it easier to share data with systems that do not support the standard protobuf binary wire format. This page specifies the format, but a number of additional edge cases which define a conformant ProtoJSON parser are covered in the Protobuf Conformance Test Suite and are not exhaustively detailed here. Non-goals of the Format Cannot Represent Some JSON schemas The ProtoJSON format is designed to be a JSON representation of schemas which are expressible in the Protobuf schema language.