Hi Liam, What kind of negotiation are you imagining, exactly?
Note that just because two schemas are "compatible" as checked by CompatibilityChecker does not prove that they are compatible at the application level. So, CompatibilityChecker can't really prove compatibility -- it can only prove incompatibility, in cases where the schemas are plainly mismatching. CompatibilityChecker could be used, for example, in a git commit hook, to check for changes made to a capnp file that appear to introduce incompatibilities. But, in this role it would be like a linter -- it can't catch all bugs, just some obvious ones. I would be wary of relying on CompatibilityChecker for correctness at runtime as part of a "negotiation", since it could falsely claim compatibility between protocols that aren't actually compatible. With all that said, although CompatibilityChecker isn't directly exposed as a public API today, you can access its functionality by creating a SchemaLoader and loading the two schemas you want to check into it (making sure they have the same type ID). If it detects they are incompatible, this will throw an exception. -Kenton On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Liam Staskawicz <l...@stask.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm interested in negotiating/validating the compatibility of data types > prior to establishing a session between two peers. > > I came across capnp::SchemaLoader::CompatibilityChecker and found it to > be quite similar to & perhaps a good match for what I am interested in but, > unfortunately, not part of the public capnp api. > > Would you recommend reimplementing the parts of CompatibilityChecker > needed for my application? Is there any interest/value/sense in making it > (or something like it) public, to allow for reuse instead? > > Thank you, > Liam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Cap'n Proto" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to capnproto+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/capnproto. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cap'n Proto" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to capnproto+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/capnproto.
