[protobuf] Re: Issue 57 in protobuf: null values should be treated as no value

2013-11-12 Thread protobuf
Comment #41 on issue 57 by mikerobe...@gmail.com: null values should be treated as no value http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=57 Seems to me there is another way that large amounts of boilerplate code can be reduced - I've just documented it on my blog: http://www.codedmi

[protobuf] Re: Issue 57 in protobuf: null values should be treated as no value

2013-11-12 Thread protobuf
Comment #43 on issue 57 by limpbizkit: null values should be treated as no value http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=57 For what it's worth, Wire is an alternate implementation of protocol buffers for Java. It uses null for absent. http://corner.squareup.com/2013/08/introduc