Thanks for your reply! I have found a bug in my software. I didn't know that string field of a message considered as already created by protobuf code if it points not to default string, set_<fieldname>() method first compares those pointers and only calls 'new' if they are different. Next, I passed a message created in one DLL into another DLL. Those DLL are assembled with individual instances of proto lib, so addresses of default string instances were different in the context of different DLLs. Second DLL called set_<fieldname>() method actually not creating it (and destroying default string in the memory of first DLL of course). Then, I had a number of subsequences of this bug... I am wondering why IsSet() (bitmask that indicates what fields are set) is not used in the set_<fieldname>() code instead of comparing address with address of default string, but anyway now I understand that I must not try to access deserialized message created in the context of a different instance of prtotolib...
But now I have a different problem and I will really appreciate it if could put some light on it. I am now trying to use unknown fields to extend a message with a fields that are not known by the code that created that message. Yes I remember about tag numbers so I am adding new fields with tags 1000, 1001... (original message is created with about 5 fields with tags 1-5). Then message is serialized, sent over a network and received by another process. The receiver process knows type of this message (it was compiled with same .proto file). After deserialization (I am using msg-ParseFromString()) only fields declared in proto get assigned in new message, but unknown_fields set is empty. Isn't ParseFromString() supposed to read all fields from the string including unknown? On Sep 22, 6:59 am, Pherl Liu <liuj...@google.com> wrote: > Can you try to print the DebugString() of the message containing unknown > fields? One possibility is you used the wrong message type to parse the > bytes. > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Michael Videlgauz > <mich...@videlgauz.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello! > > > I am now investigating a bug in my program under debugger (VS2008 > > IDE). I see that some my messages have unknown fields set. I don't use > > any executable compiled with old proto files, whenever I change my > > proto file I rebuild entire project with new pp.h and pb.cc sources. > > Even more, I have reverted my recent changes in proto and now I have > > it exactly the same as it was when project was built very first time > > (I mean there is no chance that executable compiled with a different > > proto exists anywhere). Still I am getting those unknown fields - I > > see under debugger that message destructor iterates over unknown field > > set and deletes them one by one. The value of fileds is a string that > > I do set in my program and 'numbers' (if I guess correctly they are > > field's tags) are 5 and 7 - tags that always existed in my proto from > > very first time it was compiled... > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Protocol Buffers" group. > > To post to this group, send email to protobuf@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 protobuf@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.
