According to this thread https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/protobuf/p4WxcplrlA4,
It would involve us upgrading proto to 3.0.0 (which does not mean proto3). It seems like we would also get `oneof` which would also be very useful for us. On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:00 AM Jie Yu <yujie....@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like Map is already supported in proto2: > > > https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/cpp-generated#map-fields > > > > It'll greatly simply our json parsing in a few cases (e.g., converting from > > OCI image configuration to a protobuf definition for key->value json > > object): > > > > "annotations" : { > > "key1" : "value1", > > "key2" : "value2" > > } > > > > Previously, it's not possible to have a protobuf scheme for such a json. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > - Jie > >
