I'm facing the exact same problem. Did you find any way to migrate data with PB? The only way I can think of is to keep generated code of each schema version and program the migration with that.
On Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 4:39:50 PM UTC-4, Klaus Kraft wrote: > > Hi, > > so far I have defined messages and the only changes I had to handle were > additions and deletions of fields and renamings of fields. It was no > problem to handle this using ProtoBuf. Now I am in the situation that I > defined a message and a field of the message needs to be moved to a field > of another message. How can one handle such a data migration scenario? The > main problem is that I do not want to lose the data that was associated > with the original field that is moved. > > I would also be interested in how to handle comparable, complex, data > migration scenarios that go beyond additions, deletions and simple > renamings. If there is no direct support from ProtoBuf, is it possible to > implement migrations in Java (I'm using Java as my target language)? > > Thanks in advance. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
