One possible work around would be to run protoc with --descriptor_set_out
to just parse the .proto files and generate descriptors, and then your
program could read in the descriptors without needing to use the plugin
interface. Would that work well for your situation? Otherwise, your idea of
using
Hi,
I am writing a protoc plugin which outputs documentation files from
protobuf sources in python.
I would like to produce binary files (a PNG image with a nice diagram),
however, this is impossible because CodeGeneratorResponse.File.content is a
"string" field, rather than a "bytes" field, w