Hi Brandon, The proto compiler doesn't generally allow what you are asking for. It always wants to see the full closure of .proto files.
But if you are writing for Bazel, you shouldn't have to worry about any of that. As long as you are on Bazel >=5.3, you can use proto_common to handle most of the hard work for you when writing proto rules with aspects. proto_common makes it easy to write rules that work like the built-in rules cc_proto_library(), java_proto_library(), etc. There don't seem to be a lot of good documentation or examples for this right now. You could take a look at my in-progress CL that migrates to using proto_common: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/upb/pull/1254/files#diff-6816023f8495e20887edd8410f0348dbf79b27761cd5cf44cbfa6f72389274af Josh On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 5:10:15 PM UTC-7 bra...@buildbuddy.io wrote: > I'm writing a protoc plugin protoc-gen-protobufjs > <https://github.com/bduffany/protoc-gen-protobufjs> that is intended as a > faster version of protobufjs-cli and which is a better fit for Bazel. > > I have gotten it working, and am now trying to optimize the build rules a > little bit. My understanding is that when compiling a proto file, protoc > needs to locate all of the file's transitive dependencies, and gives an > error if it can't find one of them. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not a proto expert), but my > understanding is that I just need to know about the directly imported > protos so that I can tell whether a particular type reference is a message > or an enum. So I am wondering if there is a way to tell protoc to not fail > if it can't find an indirect import, and instead continue code generation > anyway. > > Thanks! > > Brandon > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/5db3ba6d-dec6-4391-af00-2e83ef4445ben%40googlegroups.com.
