We have discussed this feature request before and the decision is that we
won't support it. To achieve what you need, you can define a new message
type with all the parameters you need as fields and use this message as the
request type.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Marvin Somebody <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
> recently I started using protobuf for one of my projects, as I finished
> with defining my services I tried to compile but it didn't worked. That was
> because I defined my functions like at {2} , I did this because for me as
> programmer it is normal that functions can be defined with more than one
> parameter. In my opinion protobuf should support it because it improves
> readably and if I can omit the messages to encapsulate others so the
> codebase will be  also smaller.
>
>
> message User {
>     required bytes uuid = 1;
>     required string name = 2;
> }
>
>
> message ChatMessage {
>     required User sender = 1;
>     required string msg = 2;
> }
>
>
> message StatusResponse {
>     required int32 status = 1;
> }
>
>
> //That's what I currently do {1}
> message MessageTransfer {
>     required User recipient = 1;
>     required ChatMessage msg = 2;
> }
>
>
> service ChatService {
>     rpc sendmessage(MessageTransfer) returns (StatusResponse);
> }
>
>
> //That's what I want to do {2}
> service ChatService {
>     rpc sendmessage(ChatMessage msg ,User recipient) returns (
> StatusResponse);
> }
>
> Thanks for reading
>
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