1# API Discovery Format
2
3This directory contains a Protocol Buffer-language model
4and related code for supporting Google's API Discovery Format.
5
6Gnostic applications and plugins can use Discovery.proto
7to generate Protocol Buffer support code for their preferred languages.
8
9Discovery.go is used by Gnostic to read JSON and YAML Discovery
10descriptions into the Protocol Buffer-based datastructures
11generated from Discovery.proto.
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13Discovery.proto and Discovery.go are generated by the Gnostic
14compiler generator, and Discovery.pb.go is generated by
15protoc, the Protocol Buffer compiler, and protoc-gen-go, the
16Protocol Buffer Go code generation plugin.
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