On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:26 AM, Kenton Varda wrote:
> I'm not familiar with R. But, the error means that you've attempted
> to load two different copies of rexp.pb.cc into the same process.
> The protobuf runtime requires that all compiled-in .proto files have
> unique names.
>
> Note that if you have two files with the same name, but in different
> directories, then you should make sure to run protoc from the common
> parent directory. E.g., if you have foo/myproto.proto and bar/
> myproto.proto, DON'T do this:
>
> (cd foo && protoc myproto.proto)
> (cd bar && protoc myproto.proto)
>
> In this case, protoc assigns the same name to both files.
>
> Instead, you should do this:
>
> protoc foo/myproto.proto
> protoc bar/myproto.proto
>
> Then the directory name becomes part of each file name, making them
> different. Note that you can also use --proto_path to identify the
> top-level source directory instead of actually running protoc from it.
>
Thanks , that is what us happening, the same file is being loaded
twice. I'll follow your suggestion and see how things go.
>
>
> PS. I notice you wrote this:
>
> http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rprotobuf-yada/2009-October/00.html
>
> There is a missing option (c) here: Do like option (b), but do NOT
> copy the protoc source code. Instead, simply link against
> libprotoc, which is one of the libraries included in the protobuf
> package -- it provides the CommandLineInterface class, so all you
> need to do is write a CodeGenerator implementation and a main()
> function. The .proto language DOES change over time (we add new
> features), so you should not try to write your own parser!
Yes , after I sent that email, romain pointed me to the c++ API
whereupon I found the methods you mentioned. My mistake. I saw the
java generator and got a rudimentary idea if how it was being done.
Thanks again for your prompt help
Regards
Saptarshi
> S
> In the future I'm hoping to make protoc itself support "plugins";
> see this thread:
> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf/browse_thread/thread/1010da67218d45d2
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Fishtank
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I use R 2.9.2 and have written two packages which use a proto file,
> one proto is a subset of the other.
> When I load both packages(one after the other,though order does not
> matter) loading the second causes the following crash
>
> libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/descriptor_database.cc:56] File
> already exists in database: rexp.proto
> libprotobuf FATAL google/protobuf/descriptor.cc:857] CHECK failed:
> generated_database_->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size):
> Abort trap
>
>
> What does this mean, and is there something I'm doing wrong on my
> side?
> Thank you for your time
> Regards
> Saptarshi
>
> >
>
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