On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Tim Kientzle <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 14, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Feng Xiao <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > In google, we are using a front-end proxy to convert JSON to/from
> protobuf, and everything else behind it is using protobuf only. The current
> Any design works with this approach very well.
>
> That approach works well my proposed Any design as well.  Your proxies can
> still walk the object tree and validate and/or convert Any fields as
> necessary for your particular systems.
>
> But that approach is not appropriate for everyone.  Your Any design cannot
> be used by people that require different policies.
>
Can you elaborate a bit more? You mentioned the middle system does not know
google.profile and has no way to get it. Why is that? I think whether the
middle system knows the type info is the only thing that makes a
difference. In the google scenario, the middle system always knows all
types it will be converting from JSON to protobuf and rejects inputs it
doesn't know about.


> Tim
>
>

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