On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Motiejus Jakštys <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am writing Python protoc plugin which wants to add some Python to
> resulting artifacts. However, there is an issue. For it to work I must
> do some acrobatics to get the file name in the plugin. The "name" of
> CodeGeneratorResponse().file must be non-empty, otherwise plugin will
> fail with this message:
>
> : Tried to insert into file that doesn't exist.
>
> Now I implemented a hack: I match the filename and guess the resulting
> output in the filename. Works for now, but not general enough.
>
I think what you are doing is correct. Your plugin needs to know what the
protocol compiler will generate for a proto file. When the protocol
compiler changes, your plugin should be updated accordingly. There isn't an
API for the plugin to query for the output file names.


>
> Is there a better way to get the being-generated filename in general
> case? Am I missing something in the protoc plugins API? Or is it safe?
>
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