protos are also gaining "Well-known Types", some of which are "boxed" (Message) versions of the primitive types: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/google.protobuf
I believe the actual docs on well-known types are currently Google-internal :-( Zellyn On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 2:43:00 PM UTC-4, Yoav H wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted ask regarding the decision to populate fields with default > values, even if they do not appear in the encoded message. > If I want to send a "patch" message, where I want to update just the > provided fields, how can I do that with protobuf (without adding IsXXXSet > for every field)? > > Why not add another type, representing a default value? > So the schematics would be, if the field is missing, it is null, and if > the field exists, but with this "missing value" type, it will get the > default value? > > Thanks, > Yoav. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
