Hi Deanna!
Agreed to your point. But if there is an integer and it's value is set to
0, even then the parsing returns false. Which should not happen.
On Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 11:20:56 PM UTC+5:30 Deanna Garcia wrote:
> In protobuf, we can't store null strings so to denote a string that isn't
> set we use the empty string. For this reason, the parsing is returning
> false to tell you that there isn't a field there but as you're seeing will
> still parse as an empty string.
>
> On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 1:37:05 AM UTC-7 Krati Chordia wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to send a message on wire with the following protobuf
>> structure
>>
>> message TestMsg {
>> string status = 1;
>> }
>>
>> I create an instance of TestMsg and set status as empty and serialize it
>> to a string.
>>
>> TestMsg m1;
>> m1.set_status("");
>>
>> std::string str = m1.SerializeAsString();
>>
>> Post serialization, str is sent over wire and tried to be parsed.
>> ParseFromString returns false whereas it should not. For any other value,
>> it parses successfully.
>>
>> TestMsg m2;
>> m2.ParseFromString(str); <----- this returns false
>>
>> Also, if I try to retrieve the value of m2.status(), it will return an
>> empty string even though the parsing returns false.
>>
>
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