Hello GAR Community! I want to raise a question about removing previously introduced protobuf specs for the format.
The initial idea was to allow multiple languages avoid manual defining of the models for GAR YAML files and fully rely on the protobuf messages via protobuf -> JSON -> YAML conversion (and back conversion). But IRL the whole idea failed. See comments in the related github issue: 1. https://github.com/apache/incubator-graphar/issues/707#issuecomment-3139249373 2.https://github.com/apache/incubator-graphar/issues/707#issuecomment-313936596 At the moment there is no published parts of GAR that are using protobuf messages, only unfinished JAVA API is relying on it. So, I see it is as a nice moment to do this because it won't be user-facing change and JAVA API can be updated quite easily. Instead of protobuf files I would like to update format specification in documentation with detailed examples of YAML files, possible data types and how they should look like in YAML. By this email I want to start an official discussion. If there won't be any voice against it, I will open a [VOTE]. Best regards, Sem --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
