lbryio
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+# LBRY Types
+
+Cross-language definitions for standard LBRY types. 
+
+## Using LBRY types in your code
+
+### Go
+
+```
+package main
+
+import pb "github.com/lbryio/types/go"
+import "fmt"
+
+func main() {
+    title := "Coherence"
+    metadata := pb.Metadata{Title:&title}
+    fmt.Printf("Let's watch %s on LBRY!\n", metadata.GetTitle())
+}
+
+```
+
+### Python
+
+todo
+
+### Javascript
+
+todo
+
+## Compiling types
+
+You only need to do this if you're modifying the types themselves.
+
+- Download [the protoc binary](https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases) and put it in your path. Make sure you get the one starting with `protoc`, not `protobuf`.
+- `./build.sh`
+
+## License
+
+MIT
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+#set -x
+
+version_gte() {
+  [ "$1" = "$(echo -e "$1\n$2" | sort -V | tail -n1)" ]
+}
+
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+
+hash protoc 2>/dev/null || { echo >&2 -e 'error: protoc binary not found\nDownload it from https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases and put it in your path.\nMake sure you get the one starting with `protoc`, not `protobuf`.'; exit 1; }
+
+
+PROTOC="$(which protoc)"
+VERSION="$($PROTOC --version | cut -d' ' -f2)"
+MIN_VERSION="3.0"
+
+version_gte "$VERSION" "$MIN_VERSION" || { echo >&2 "error: protoc version must be >= $MIN_VERSION (your $PROTOC is $VERSION)"; exit 1; }
+
+
+hash protoc-gen-go 2>/dev/null || go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
+hash protoc-gen-go 2>/dev/null || { echo >&2 'error: Make sure $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH'; exit 1; }
+
+
+find $DIR/go $DIR/python $DIR/js -type f -delete
+
+
+protoc --proto_path="$DIR/proto" --python_out="$DIR/python" --go_out="$DIR/go" --js_out="import_style=commonjs,binary:$DIR/js" $DIR/proto/*.proto