Hi, I wanted to generate FileDescriptor dynamically from .proto without referencing, as in the given example we have reference Student.Interop.DTO so that we can get the StudentDTO.Descriptor and EmployeeDTO.Descriptor, so i wanted to avoid this reference.
*Example :* namespace Student.WebApi { using System.Web.Http; using Framework.WebApi.Formatters; using Google.Protobuf.Reflection; using Repository; using Student.Interop.DTO; public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication { protected void Application_Start() { GlobalConfiguration.Configure(WebApiConfig.Register); var json = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter; json.SerializerSettings.Converters.Add(new AnyJsonConverter(TypeRegistry.FromMessages(StudentDTO.Descriptor, EmployeeDTO.Descriptor))); } } } So to achieve this following few steps i tried : *Step 1* : Sample Proto i.e Student.proto which consist of message type i.e StudentDTO and EmployeeDTO syntax = "proto3"; package AnalysisConsoleApplication; import "google/protobuf/any.proto"; option csharp_namespace = "AnalysisConsoleApplication"; message StudentDTO { google.protobuf.Any Any = 1; string USN = 2; string Name = 3; string University = 4; } message EmployeeDTO { string Name = 1; string Gender = 2; } Step 2 : I generated Student.pb by using below command i.e .\protoc.exe --proto_path=D:\Proto Proto\Student.proto --include_imports --descriptor_set_out=D:\AnalysisConsoleApplication\Student.pb Step 3 : If i reference Google.Protobuf.3.0.0-beta2 in my SampleConsoleApplication and try to use FileDescriptor class then it will give error as recently in updated version FileDescriptor is of Internal sealed class. so i clone the Google.Protobuf repository which was of Google.Protobuf.3.0.0-beta2 release time, at that time FileDescriptor class was public sealed class. Now my SampleConsoleApplication solution will have another project which is of Google.Protobuf. Note: SampleConsoleApplication zip file is been attached for detail understanding. This code is from Actual generated C# file(Student.cs) from the given proto, but now next step we will create this below descriptorData dynamically from Student.pb byte[] descriptorData = global::System.Convert.FromBase64String( string.Concat( "Cg1TdHVkZW50LnByb3RvEhpBbmFseXNpc0NvbnNvbGVBcHBsaWNhdGlvbhoZ", "Z29vZ2xlL3Byb3RvYnVmL2FueS5wcm90byJeCgpTdHVkZW50RFRPEiEKA0Fu", "eRgBIAEoCzIULmdvb2dsZS5wcm90b2J1Zi5BbnkSCwoDVVNOGAIgASgJEgwK", "BE5hbWUYAyABKAkSEgoKVW5pdmVyc2l0eRgEIAEoCSIrCgtFbXBsb3llZURU", "TxIMCgROYW1lGAEgASgJEg4KBkdlbmRlchgCIAEoCUIdqgIaQW5hbHlzaXND", "b25zb2xlQXBwbGljYXRpb25iBnByb3RvMw==")); descriptor = pbr::FileDescriptor.FromGeneratedCode(descriptorData, new pbr::FileDescriptor[] { global::Google.Protobuf.WellKnownTypes.AnyReflection.Descriptor, }, new pbr::GeneratedCodeInfo(null, new pbr::GeneratedCodeInfo[] { new pbr::GeneratedCodeInfo(typeof(global::AnalysisConsoleApplication.StudentDTO), global::AnalysisConsoleApplication.StudentDTO.Parser, new[]{ "Any", "USN", "Name", "University" }, null, null, null), new pbr::GeneratedCodeInfo(typeof(global::AnalysisConsoleApplication.EmployeeDTO), global::AnalysisConsoleApplication.EmployeeDTO.Parser, new[]{ "Name", "Gender" }, null, null, null) })); Step 4: Now to generate descriptorData dynamically from Student.pb, i have written the following code which gives the descriptorData in byte[] //get the path of Student.pb var path = string.Format("{0}/Student.pb", Path.GetDirectoryName(new Uri(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase).LocalPath)); //create messageParser MessageParser<FileDescriptorSet> messageParser = new MessageParser<FileDescriptorSet>(() => new FileDescriptorSet()); // open and read it CodedInputStream stream = new CodedInputStream(new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open)); //Parses a message from the given coded input stream. var data = messageParser .ParseFrom(stream); //Covert to ByteString var descriptorData = data.File[0].ToByteString(); Step 5: Last step to generate filedescriptor by calling FileDescriptor.FromGeneratedCode() which accepts 3 parameters Parameter 1: byte[] descriptorData -> this parameter we are able to generate dynamically as done in step 4 i.e descriptorData.ToByteArray() Parameter 2: FileDescriptor[] dependencies-> this takes all the dependencies. Parameter 3: GeneratedCodeInfo generatedCodeInfo-> This has GeneratedCodeInfo(Type clrType, MessageParser parser, string[] propertyNames, string[] oneofNames, Type[] nestedEnums, GeneratedCodeInfo[] nestedTypes) out of this parameters i am not able to get clrtype dynamically. *Here is the brief example of what i am expecting:* typeof(global::SampleConsoleApplication.StudentDTO): this gives the type i.e clrtype of StudentDTO which is of public sealed class, which will be generated in Student.cs by executing the Student.proto. But I am trying to get the clrtype without generating Student.cs, so because of which typeof(global::SampleConsoleApplication.StudentDTO) can't be used here. -- 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. 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