Convert Protobuf response to JSON in NodeJS

Question

How do we convert Protobuf response (eg. from Bigtable NodeJS Client) to JSON/String with correct braces. There are some resources for Python or Java(https://code.google.com/archive/p/protobuf-java-format/) but none for NodeJS yet which I have found. I am fairly new to Bigtable and NodeJS.

Faultfinding

Answer 1

I'm not an expert in nodejs, but it seems like the node protobuf library contains a toObject method that will give you a plain javascript object which you can pass to JSON.stringify():

https://www.npmjs.com/package/protobufjs#usage

Selinaselinda

Unfortunately the toObject encoding doesn't correctly implement all fields as it should be the proto documentation. E.g. TimeStamp should be returned as an ISO timestamp, but instead is an object with properties of seconds and nanos – Laws