I hope this is the right group. I've generated a Java API for Helm's Tiller using gRPC and protocol buffers. You can see the javadocs here: https://microbean.github.io/microbean-helm/apidocs/index.html Look at the hapi.* packages.
As I'm working with the generated API, I need to add one kind of thing to another thing's list of such things. Specifically (and arbitrarily) I need to add a (sub-) Chart.Builder to a (top-level) Chart.Builder's "dependencies", only if it isn't already present. I can do this via the following generated methods: https://microbean.github.io/microbean-helm/apidocs/hapi/chart/ChartOuterClass.Chart.Builder.html#addDependencies-hapi.chart.ChartOuterClass.Chart.Builder- (Adds a Chart.Builder) https://microbean.github.io/microbean-helm/apidocs/hapi/chart/ChartOuterClass.Chart.Builder.html#addDependenciesBuilder-- (I don't know what this does.) It seems from looking at the generated source code that if I call build() on the "top level" Chart.Builder, it will cascade to the Chart.Builders present in the return value of getDependenciesBuilderList() and call build() on them too. I also need to add a Chart.Builder only if it isn't present already. When I tried to implement this logic, I found that no Chart.Builder added is equal to any other Chart.Builder. That is, there doesn't seem to be the ability to check for a Chart.Builder "in" another Chart.Builder's list of dependencies. Finally at the end of all this, I call build() on the top-level Chart.Builder and expect it to produce a Chart with some subcharts in its dependencies. Should I in fact expect this? Now I feel like I have the semantics about these generated methods all wrong. Is there a better walkthrough than https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/javatutorial? Is there a standard way for assembling an object graph out of connected builders? Thanks, Best, Laird -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
