It will be treated like an unknown field. In C++ or Java, the value goes
into the UnknownFieldSet, so if you then serialize the message, it will
still be there. In Python it will just be discarded.
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Stuart Johnson wrote:
>
> If a new enum value had been added to a enum type, and it's being
> deserialised by an application that is not yet aware of the new enum
> value, what should happen?
>
> Should the enum value be null, or should the deserialisation abort?
>
>
> >
>
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