i didn't see anything on this in the archives but i admit i didn't do an exhaustive search. i'm using protobuf (2.3.0) to store objects in a Voldemort cluster and am working on the code to modify these objects. so i load the message fine, but it is composed of a list of other messages and i'd like to modify the contents of that list and then stream it back into the cluster. i assumed this is what Type.newBuilder(Type) was for, but have run into an interesting wrinkle trying to modify the list (once i've located the entry i want to remove by index). Builder.getXXXList() returns an unmodifiableList, but the actual message's getXXXList() returns a ref to the actual list (i.e., i could modify the list in the message, but not the list within the message within the builder). i haven't gone through all the code yet but this seemed rather odd since i had thought messages within builders were mutable until build() but once built were considered immutable (tho perhaps that's just in my head).
is there a doc showing best practices for modifying Protobuf messages i should be reading? thanks, .......................ron. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
