latest. linted and building, not working yet

mfer/deserialize.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package mfer
+
+import "google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
+
+func NewFromProto(input []byte) (*manifest, error) {
+	m := New()
+	err := proto.Unmarshal(input, m.pbOuter)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}

mfer/serialize.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package mfer
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"compress/gzip"
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"errors"
 	"time"
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ func (m *manifest) generate() error {
 			return e
 		}
 	}
-	dat, err := proto.Marshal(m.pbOuter)
+	dat, err := proto.MarshalOptions{Deterministic: true}.Marshal(m.pbOuter)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ func (m *manifest) generateOuter() error {
 	if m.pbInner == nil {
 		return errors.New("internal error")
 	}
-	innerData, err := proto.Marshal(m.pbInner)
+	innerData, err := proto.MarshalOptions{Deterministic: true}.Marshal(m.pbInner)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -62,9 +63,20 @@ func (m *manifest) generateOuter() error {
 	h := sha256.New()
 	h.Write(innerData)
 
+	idc := new(bytes.Buffer)
+	gzw, err := gzip.NewWriterLevel(idc, gzip.BestCompression)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = gzw.Write(innerData)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	gzw.Close()
+
 	o := &MFFileOuter{
-		// FIXME add more
+		InnerMessage:    idc.Bytes(),
-		InnerMessage:    innerData,
 		Size:            int64(len(innerData)),
 		Sha256:          h.Sum(nil),
 		Version:         MFFileOuter_VERSION_ONE,