Hi all, I got a wild idea... The well know types is used a lot but they are
cumbersome to write.As a contract first DSL this is not really readable.
What if we could get rid of the complete package. It could be as simple as
replacing the package of WKT by !
Example for wrappers:
message ProtoBeamBasicNullablePrimitive {
google.protobuf.StringValue nullable_string = 1;
google.protobuf.DoubleValue nullable_double = 2;
google.protobuf.FloatValue nullable_float = 3;
google.protobuf.Int32Value nullable_int32 = 4;
google.protobuf.Int64Value nullable_int64 = 5;
google.protobuf.UInt32Value nullable_uint32 = 6;
google.protobuf.UInt64Value nullable_uint64 = 7;
google.protobuf.BoolValue nullable_bool = 8;
google.protobuf.BytesValue nullable_bytes = 9;
}
into
message ProtoBeamBasicNullablePrimitive {
!StringValue nullable_string = 1;
!DoubleValue nullable_double = 2;
!FloatValue nullable_float = 3;
!Int32Value nullable_int32 = 4;
!Int64Value nullable_int64 = 5;
!UInt32Value nullable_uint32 = 6;
!UInt64Value nullable_uint64 = 7;
!BoolValue nullable_bool = 8;
!BytesValue nullable_bytes = 9;
}
Example for Duration and Timestamp:
message ProtoBeamWktMessage {
string test_name = 1;
int32 test_index = 2;
google.protobuf.Timestamp timestamp = 3;
google.protobuf.Duration duration = 4;
}
into
message ProtoBeamWktMessage {
string test_name = 1;
int32 test_index = 2;
!Timestamp timestamp = 3;
!Duration timestamp = 4;
}
Maybe it could be generalised, where the ! acts like a static import on the
import
import !"google/protobuf/timestamp.proto";
this way if you add ! to the import, you can use the ! on all types in the
imported Message types ( example !Timestamp ).
I think this could all be done in a compatible way. It does give the protoc
compiler some extra work, but the resulting descriptor would be the same,
referencing the full path.
Ok, I know... crazy idea ;-)
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