I think it can result in in-efficiencies. One of the core feature of
porto-buffers is to pack things efficiently. The lower value of integer
assigned to a variable ensures optimised packing and secondly the integers
have to be unique but not necessarily continuous.
With multiple level of inheritance, it will be difficult to keep track of
the integers assigned to properties in the base structures.
On Thursday, 20 October 2016 01:00:22 UTC+5:30, Saurabh Kumar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This question is regarding inheritance in protobuf C++ library. I will
> explain what I am looking for with a concrete example.
>
> I have this message definition:
>
> message MSG1
> {
> required string account = 0;
> required string symbol = 1;
> }
>
> Now I want to extend this message and define a new message like this:
> message MSG2
> {
> required string account = 0;
> required string symbol = 1;
> required int32 id = 2;
> }
>
> You will notice that first two fields of MSG2 are exactly same as MSG1
> (they are intended to be like that). But here I had to copy paste the
> common fields again.
> Can I do something like this?
>
> message MSG2 extends MSG1
> {
> required int32 id = 2;
> }
>
> I have already thought about using it like:
> message MSG2
> {
> required MSG1 msg1 = 0;
> required int32 id = 2;
> }
> But this is not really what I want.
>
> What's the best way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
> Saurabh
>
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