Oneof fields are great for representing that, though:
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#oneof
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Yaseen Khan <khan.charlie...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> But a single message can have various data types as seen in the example..
> The message Master {..}
>
> On 13-Feb-2018 23:41, "Adam Cozzette" <acozze...@google.com> wrote:
>
> I mean to say just don't rely on the field names at all, and instead store
> all the information you need in the serialized message. For example, your
> serialized message could store a map<string, DataType> that maps the string
> property name to another message called DataType describing the kind of
> data associated with that property.
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Yaseen Khan <khan.charlie...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry I don't understand. How would you serialise the field names?
>>
>> On 13-Feb-2018 23:32, "Adam Cozzette" <acozze...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, I see. I would try to find a way to do this without trying to rely
>>> on reflection, perhaps by serializing the names you need inside a proto
>>> message without using the actual field names.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Yaseen Khan <khan.charlie...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A dynamic form needs keys and values(if any) to be fed to it to create
>>>> a form. I was thinking I could get the names of the properties in a msg
>>>> with a descriptor and feeding it to create a dynamic form.
>>>>
>>>> Although a crude way of doing it is converting the jspb proto object to
>>>> a normal Object and reading its keys,.. I didn't find it to be a good
>>>> approach.
>>>>
>>>> On 13-Feb-2018 22:52, "Adam Cozzette" <acozze...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> But ordinarily you parse messages without needing any descriptors--why
>>>>> do need a descriptor to read your message?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 9:20 AM, Yaseen Khan <
>>>>> khan.charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Trying to create dynamic forms by reading proto msgs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 13-Feb-2018 22:48, "Adam Cozzette" <acozze...@google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What do you want to do with the descriptors?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:15 PM, Yaseen Khan <
>>>>>>> khan.charlie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, could you possibly give me the work around for it? It would be
>>>>>>>> very helpful. Thanks!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Friday, 9 February 2018 17:06:45 UTC+5:30, Yaseen Khan wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to get the descriptor for my proto message. In java
>>>>>>>>> there is this, Message.getDescriptor()
>>>>>>>>> which does the job but its hard to find something similar in jspb.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> syntax = "proto3";
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> message Master {
>>>>>>>>> int32 id = 1;
>>>>>>>>> string name = 2;
>>>>>>>>> Type type = 3;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> enum Type {
>>>>>>>>> UNKNOWN_TYPE = 0;
>>>>>>>>> INDUSTRY_TYPE = 1;
>>>>>>>>> LOCATION_TYPE = 2;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This is the message of which i want the descriptor of.
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>
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