Hi Brenden,
In case you are in interested, I've worked on an alternative approach to
display non-present fields in text-formatting. It uses the reflection API
and applies default values to empty fields where applicable. Read on:
http://cheind.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/protocol-buffers-display-no
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Brenden Matthews wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> One of the best features of protocol buffers is the notion of presence.
> Another great feature is the ability to do 'message.PrintDebugString()'.
> One problem, however, is that fields which are not present do not get
> d
