Retrofit: Does retrofit support protobuf-lite?

[psionic12]

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[psionic12]

In my case, I had to use both retrofit and protobuf-lite in the same time, but compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-protobuf:2.3.0' will download protobuf 3.0.0 as well, this will make me get
(Duplicate zip entry [com/a/a/a$a.class == protobuf-java-3.0.0.jar:com/google/protobuf/AbstractMessageLite$Builder.class])) error. How can I fix this?

[JakeWharton]

Use your build system to exclude the converter's transitive dependency on protobuf and replace it with a dependency on protobuf-lite.

[lukaciko]

Would it make sense to make Protobuf converter depend on protobuf-lite instead of protobuf-java or is this intentionally optimized for consumers who use protobuf-java?

[swankjesse]

The converters are very simple. If you want a proto variant we don't offer, just fork the current one and include your own in your app.

All of the .proto implementations have trade-offs. I like Wire.