On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Antonia Elsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What is the proper way to include well-known types in proto files?
> I'm hoping to use FieldMasks and Any among others.
> So far I haven't had any luck.
> I've tried importing the proto files and using the namespace in the type
> name;
>
> ex:
> import "include/google/protobuf/field_mask.proto"
> ...
> google.protobuf.FieldMask field_mask = 1;
>
>
> with no success.
> Should importing the well-known type be necessary, or are they included
> with the protoc compiler?
>
You can follow the example proto in protobuf repo:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/examples/addressbook.proto#L13

Follow this readme file to build the example:
https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/examples


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