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Expand Up @@ -16,6 +16,26 @@ web-based playground hosted on Github](https://google.github.io/xtoproto).

More details about how to use xtoproto will be added soon.

## Design

xtoproto uses example data to infer a both *protobuf definition*, a *source
record spec*, and a *mapping definition*.

* The *protobuf definition* can be
represented in a `.proto` file with a custom `message` type for the record being
inferred.
* The *source record spec* is a specification for well-formed input data. For a
CSV-to-proto translation, this would be a schema for the CSV input: names and
types of columns.
* The *mapping definition* defines how to convert from the source record spec to
the destination proto type.


### Formats
The following formats currently have some support:

1. CSV (comma separated values).

## Building

The project is buildable with Bazel and `go build`. Bazel is recommended because
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