Changed the ProtobufMessages file

now using only the basic registry messages

voter-registry/.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-/bin/
 /protoc.exe
+/bin/
 /comment-info.txt

voter-registry/src/main/java/meerkat/SimpleRegistry.java

@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
 package meerkat;
 
-import com.google.protobuf.*;
+import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
 import meerkat.ProtobufsMessages.BasicMessage;
-import meerkat.ProtobufsMessages.BulletinBoardMessage;
 import meerkat.ProtobufsMessages.Tag;
 import meerkat.bulletinboard.BulletinBoardClient;
 import meerkat.comm.CommunicationException;
 import meerkat.crypto.DigitalSignature;
 import meerkat.protobuf.BulletinBoardAPI;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
 
 /**
  *  Created by Vladimir Eliezer Tokarev on 1/8/2016.
@@ -132,119 +128,9 @@ public class SimpleRegistry {
      * @return BulletinBoardAPI.BulletinBoardMessage
      */
     private BulletinBoardAPI.BulletinBoardMessage CreateBulletinBoardMessage(BasicMessage.Builder  basicMessage) {
-        BulletinBoardMessage.Builder bulletinBoardmessage = BulletinBoardMessage.newBuilder();
-        Message encodableMessage = new Message() {
-            @Override
-            public Parser<? extends Message> getParserForType() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Builder newBuilderForType() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Builder toBuilder() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public void writeTo(CodedOutputStream output) throws IOException {
-
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public int getSerializedSize() {
-                return 0;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public ByteString toByteString() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public byte[] toByteArray() {
-                return new byte[0];
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public void writeTo(OutputStream output) throws IOException {
-
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public void writeDelimitedTo(OutputStream output) throws IOException {
-
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Message getDefaultInstanceForType() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public List<String> findInitializationErrors() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public String getInitializationErrorString() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Descriptors.Descriptor getDescriptorForType() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Map<Descriptors.FieldDescriptor, Object> getAllFields() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public boolean hasOneof(Descriptors.OneofDescriptor oneof) {
-                return false;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Descriptors.FieldDescriptor getOneofFieldDescriptor(Descriptors.OneofDescriptor oneof) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public boolean hasField(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor field) {
-                return false;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Object getField(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor field) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public int getRepeatedFieldCount(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor field) {
-                return 0;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public Object getRepeatedField(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor field, int index) {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public UnknownFieldSet getUnknownFields() {
-                return null;
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public boolean isInitialized() {
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-
+        BulletinBoardAPI.BulletinBoardMessage.Builder bulletinBoardmessage =
+                BulletinBoardAPI.BulletinBoardMessage.newBuilder();
+        signatory.updateContent((ProtobufsMessages)basicMessage);
         /**
          *  encode the basic  message
          *  create bulletin board message

voter-registry/src/main/proto/ProtobufsMessages.proto

@@ -10,9 +10,3 @@ message BasicMessage {
 	repeated Tag tag = 1;
 	optional bytes data = 2;
 }
-
-message BulletinBoardMessage {
-	repeated Tag tag = 1;
-	required BasicMessage basicMessage = 2;
-	optional bytes signatures = 3;
-}