Hello, I am using the google protocol buffer reflection api to try to dynamically create a gui for users to fill in Messages manually. I had done this completely using Java reflection alone, but this eventually led to problems synchronizing the data, and was all around more work than google's reflection api should be.
I have implemented as follows: I pass a Descriptor into the main JPanel building function. From here, it iterates over the fields, and if it is integral, it makes a JTextField, and if it is a Message, it calls the same function again. What I can not find out is the type that the fielddescriptor as I am iterating over the fields from the descriptor. It appears that one "should" be able to figure this out in several ways, but none work for me. First I thought it must be soemthing in JavaType, but that appears to only be what google protocol buffers converted the .proto into. Next I thought I could get the full package name and me a newInstance of it, but when calling fullName, it only returns the class name and no package name. Next, I tried getting the file and querying it's package name, but it returns "". Like I said above, I implemented all of this in pure java reflection, and the .proto generates the .class files correctly with fully qualified names, but the google protocol buffer reflection api (using descriptors and field descriptors) does not give me enough information. Anyone have any ideas as to why it's not giving me what I want? -- 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.
