Thanks for your reply Kenton, I've been going round in circles with the documentation but completely missed the section on custom options. Ok, so that has helped a little but I'm still not sure how to apply it. So here is some more information. I have the sample addressbook.proto file and at the top it has a couple of options:
option java_package = "com.example.tutorial"; option java_outer_classname = "AddressBookProtos"; All I want to do is add another line like so: option php_skip_unknown = true; or something like: option php_namespace = "My/Namespace"; Which, in the first case, would tell my compiler to skip over unknown fields instead of storing them, and the second put the generated files in a particular namespace. Now I see from the documentation I can extend FileOptions, but where do I save the proto file with my new options in it? Would I need to recompile the protoc compiler? At the moment I'm using protoc installed from apt, and giving it the following command line: protoc --php_out . --plugin=protoc-gen-php=./protoc-gen-php my.proto Thanks for any guidance you can give me. Andrew On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Kenton Varda <ken...@google.com> wrote: > It sounds like you are using custom options incorrectly, independent of your > plugin. That error message is being produced by protoc before it even tries > to call your plugin. Please double-check the docs on custom options. If > you can't figure out what's wrong, show us the .proto code you are using to > define and then use your option. > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Andrew Brampton <bramp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I've nearly finished writing a compiler plugin for generating PHP >> code. I now wanted to support some additional options. However, I'm >> not sure how to begin. When I have a custom option in my proto file, >> protoc seems to die with this error: >> >> my.proto:2:8: Option "php_skip_unknown" unknown. >> >> This seems to happen before CodeGenerator's generate method is called. >> So I'm not sure how I handle this. >> >> Also, are there some test proto files, with binary data, which I can >> use to fully validate my compiler? >> >> thanks >> Andrew >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- 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.
