[protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

Hi, I've nearly finished writing a compiler plugin for generating PHP code. I now wanted to support some additional options. However, I'm not sure how to begin. When I have a custom option in my proto file, protoc seems to die with this error: my.proto:2:8: Option php_skip_unknown unknown. This

[protobuf] Re: Usage of Protocol Buffer with map reduce framework

Hey Christopher, I wanted to ask that do you use RPC calling for your applications? You serialized the data into the files and send those files to the distributed processing. If I am getting this right then RPC can be one way for the client server architecture. So what your feed on that. Is

Re: [protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

It sounds like you are using custom options incorrectly, independent of your plugin. That error message is being produced by protoc before it even tries to call your plugin. Please double-check the docs on custom options. If you can't figure out what's wrong, show us the .proto code you are

Re: [protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

Thanks for your reply Kenton, I've been going round in circles with the documentation but completely missed the section on custom options. Ok, so that has helped a little but I'm still not sure how to apply it. So here is some more information. I have the sample addressbook.proto file and at the

Re: [protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

Your options extensions can live in a .proto file in the location of your choosing. protoc doesn't need to know about your options: it will simply parse the options into the UninterpretedOptions message. Then in the .proto files where you want to use your options, you need to put the option names

Re: [protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

You do not need to compile your option declarations into protoc. You only need to compile them into your plugin binary. Files which use your options must import the .proto file that defines them. protoc will then parse the option definitions dynamically. For example, you could create a file

Re: [protobuf] How to handle options in compiler plugin?

Thanks to both Jason and Kenton you have made this a lot clearer to me now! and thanks for the reserved number 1004, when I make a site for this project I'll send you the email. Andrew On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Kenton Varda ken...@google.com wrote: You do not need to compile your option