anyproto / any-block

Protocol describing data structures used in Anytype software

Any-Block

Protocol describing data structures used in Anytype software.

Description

We use Protocol Buffers to efficiently describe structured data in a binary format for network communication and storage. It offers smaller message sizes and faster serialization/deserialization than JSON or XML.

Protobuf facilitates data exchange between different systems written in different languages, while also providing automatic code generation for various programming languages.

• models.proto describes the base data structures used to represent objects and their components.
• changes.proto outlines CRDT-changes of objects and their blocks. Changes related to block updates are linked to events from events.proto.
• events.proto describes the events about the changes of objects and blocks. These events are used to notify clients and also serve as CDRT changes to be stored in an object's tree.

JSON Schemas are generated automatically using protoc-gen-jsonschema.

Contribution

Thank you for your desire to develop Anytype together!

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Licensed under MIT.

any-block's Issues

Add auto alignment option in the Any block protocol

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Clear and concise description of the problem

As described here me, and others want to add automatic RTL support to AnyType.

Suggested solution

Add a new alignment option:
Auto, that behaves like the HTML dir=auto.

Alternative

This could be handled by the clients just like how android is handling it correctly now.

see this

But I think the correct way is:

• add auto to any-block
• add an option for the user/or per space to choose default alignment
• handle automatic alignment on every client.

Additional context

Honestly, I didn't know what exactly was the best solution, that's why I am opening an issue.

Maybe the team sees this issue as a low priority one and just handling it on every client is enough.

And maybe they see that my proposed solution is better.

Whatever it is, I just want to hear what they are thinking about this.