How to return Google protobuff object using python Django

Question

I'm ultimately aiming to create a payment request object for bitcoin, I'm not sure of the correct method to return a protobuff response object using Django.

import payments_pb2
x = payments_pb2
x.address = 'home'
return render_to_response(x)

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Protocol buffer is a binary format. You can serve protocol buffer content from django in a similar way to serving pictures, files ...

Example:

def protobuf_view(request):
    ...

    x = payments_pb2
    x.address = 'home'

    return HttpResponse(x.SerializeToString(), content_type="application/octet-stream")