message foo1 {
   optional int32 value1 = 1;
   optional int32 value2 = 2;
}

message foo2 {
   optional foo1 stuff1 = 1;
   optional foo2 stuff2 = 2;
}

foo1 msg_foo1;
foo2 msg_foo2;

msg_foo2.set_stuff1(foo1);

This is the concept of what I'm trying to do.


On Sep 23, 8:25 am, Henner Zeller <h.zel...@acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:13, jayt0...@gmail.com <jayt0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am having trouble accessing many members of my .proto file.  It
> > seems that compound members are not accessible with set_() method
> > calls.  I saw in your example code the use of mutable_() calls. What
> > does this apply to and is there documentation on it? could this be the
> > solution to my problem?
>
> You should describe your problem more closely, it is not quite clear
> what you mean.
>
> If you have a message Bar, that contains a message Foo, say:
>
> message Foo {
>    optional int32 value = 1;
>
> }
>
> message Bar {
>    optional Foo foo = 1;
>
> }
>
> you would access 'foo' to set a value with
>    Bar message;
>    message.mutable_foo()->set_value(42);
> If there is no 'foo', it will implicitly be created (so has_bar() will
> return 'true' afterwards').
>
> .. while accessing can be const
>    if (message.has_foo())
>       printf("%d", message.bar().value());
>
> But it sounds like you would like to 'set' a complete Foo message. So
> if you want to 'set' a complete Foo, you would use CopyFrom()
>   Foo foo_message;
>   foo_message.set_value(42);
>
>   Bar bar_message;
>   bar_message.mutable_bar()->CopyFrom(foo_message);
>
> -h
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