Hey,
there are some threads in this group hinting to special solutions in
cases where you want to have some kind of references build in - or on
top of - protobuf messages. For example you would want that to model
DAG (or even cyclic graph) structures.
I was thinking about how I would want such
That is actually pretty similar to a scheme I had in mind to (opt-in only)
get protobuf-net working at graph serialization. I don't think it would be
easy to fit into the existing .proto or codegen, but protobuf-net doesn't
actually demand these.
Before I go on - the first thing I'll say is that
A standard protocol buffer message type ptr_B from which a flat Java
class will be generated does not seem adequat to to so.
Instead some new abstract Class RefMessageT extends Message with a
method T getReferencedObject() would be the solution. ptr_X
messages simply had to be transformed to
