Open question to everyone. I'm curious. In all of your use-cases with protobuf, how often do you find yourself using has_foo() (a.k.a. "hazzers") for primitive fields? We use them almost everywhere because, for example, it is a very useful way of error-checking requests on the server sent from our client code on mobile devices. Maybe we're just outliers.
Google's stated reason for getting rid of presence logic is below (bolding by me): > *It's believed* that most users don't use the field presence logic much > and for those who need this feature adding a bool field is an easy > workaround. > ... It would definitely *not* be an easy workaround for us given how much we rely on presence logic. Are we in the minority? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
