Add a convenience function pb_get_encoded_size()

There is minimal size penalty from this, and it is probably much more
intuitive to use than PB_OSTREAM_SIZING itself.

This has been suggested before also, but I ended up refusing it back
them. Reconsidering it now, I see that an intuitive API is much better
than any amount of documentation explaining a non-intuitive API.

Update issue 16
Status: FixedInGit

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pb_encode.c b/pb_encode.c
index 1eb9473a..dc5a2734 100644
--- a/pb_encode.c
+++ b/pb_encode.c
@@ -378,6 +378,17 @@ bool pb_encode_delimited(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t fields[], const
     return pb_encode_submessage(stream, fields, src_struct);
 }
 
+bool pb_get_encoded_size(size_t *size, const pb_field_t fields[], const void *src_struct)
+{
+    pb_ostream_t stream = PB_OSTREAM_SIZING;
+    
+    if (!pb_encode(&stream, fields, src_struct))
+        return false;
+    
+    *size = stream.bytes_written;
+    return true;
+}
+
 /********************
  * Helper functions *
  ********************/