I've gotten this message for reasons other than the field not being
set. make sure that you have the number of bytes on the delimiters
set correctly on the C++ side. also, maybe stringProperty should be
string Property (two words).
On Oct 22, 9:12 am, locky <true.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question regarding required string properties and default
> values.
>
> Consider the following message definition.
>
> message StringTestProto {
> required stringProperty = 1;
>
> }
>
> I have a C++/Java setup where C++ app is producing a message and a
> Java app is consuming it.
>
> If the stringProperty value is set to an empty string I get the
> following exception when trying to parse the
> message once I receive it in the the Java app.
>
> com.google.protobuf.InvalidProtocolBufferException: Message missing
> required fields:
>
> The message is being read as follows:
>
> StringTestProto proto = StringTestProto.parseFrom(data);
>
> From what I can see the issue is as follows:
> As the stringProperty value is the same as the default (an empty
> string) it is not sent over the wire. When the generated Java code
> tries to build the proto from a byte[ ] (in the buildFrom method), a
> check is done to see if the proto is initialised, this check sees if
> the required fields have been set. As the stringProperty was never
> sent, the proto does not think it has been set (as it never was) and
> therefore the exception is thrown.
>
> So, how are you supposed to decode a byte[] that contains required
> properties, that may have default values?
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