Here's an example of how to do it:
http://google3/experimental/users/acozzette/map_reflection_test.cc?rcl=158157727
It's
a bit clunky because you just have to reflect on the map field like you
would a repeated field, but it works.

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Adam.
>
> Can you please let me know which API I can use to do reflection on a map?
>
>
> Regards,
> Qian Zhang
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Adam Cozzette <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Doing reflection on a map is a little bit tricky, but the way to do it is
>> to treat it as a repeated field since that is how it is actually
>> represented on the wire. A map is a stored as a repeated message field,
>> where in each message the key is field 1 and the value is field 2.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adam,
>>>
>>> We are using picojson <https://github.com/kazuho/picojson> to parse the
>>> JSON file.
>>>
>>> After more debugging, I think I have found the root cause: In the code
>>> here
>>> <https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/1.2.0/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/protobuf.hpp#L575>,
>>> we are trying to find a field by the key of an entry in a map, obviously it
>>> will fail since the key of any map entries is not in the protobuf message
>>> definition (the .proto file), and to avoid finding field by a map entry's
>>> key, in this method
>>> <https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/1.2.0/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/protobuf.hpp#L387:L407>,
>>> we need to check if "field->is_map()" is true which is currently missed, if
>>> the field is a map, then we should use the reflection to construct a map
>>> message, however I do not find a method in protobuf to do that, I find a
>>> lot of "Addxxx()" methods (e.g., "AddString()", "AddInt64()", etc.), but
>>> not a method for adding a map. There is a method
>>> "InsertOrLookupMapValue()", but that is a private method which I can not
>>> call in my code.
>>>
>>> So can you please suggest how to add a map message? Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Qian Zhang
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Adam Cozzette <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It looks to me like your JSON syntax is right. Could you post the C++
>>>> code you are using to parse the JSON file?
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a C++ project in which there is a .proto file, and in that
>>>>> file, there is protobuf message which has a map field:
>>>>> "map<string, string> annotations = 5;"
>>>>>
>>>>> And the JSON file to be parsed with that .proto file has the following
>>>>> content:
>>>>> "annotations": {
>>>>>   "com.example.key1": "value1",
>>>>>   "com.example.key2": "value2"
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> The .proto file is in proto2 syntax (it has "syntax = "proto2";" at
>>>>> the beginning) and I am using protobuf-3.3.0, the compilation succeed, but
>>>>> I found the annotation map always has only one entry, and both the entry's
>>>>> key and value are "" which is obviously not correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
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