This CL takes a significantly different approach to generating support
for protobuf reflection. The previous approach involved generating a
large number of Go literals to represent the reflection information.
While that approach was correct, it resulted in too much binary bloat.
The approach taken here initializes the reflection information from
the raw descriptor proto, which is a relatively dense representation
of the protobuf reflection information. In order to keep initialization
cost low, several measures were taken:
* At program init, the bare minimum is parsed in order to initialize
naming information for enums, messages, extensions, and services declared
in the file. This is done because those top-level declarations are often
relevant for registration.
* Only upon first are most of the other data structures for protobuf
reflection actually initialized.
* Instead of using proto.Unmarshal, a hand-written unmarshaler is used.
This allows us to avoid a dependendency on the descriptor proto and also
because the API for the descriptor proto is fundamentally non-performant
since it requires an allocation for every primitive field.
At a high-level, the new implementation lives in internal/fileinit.
Several changes were made to other parts of the repository:
* cmd/protoc-gen-go:
* Stop compressing the raw descriptors. While compression does reduce
the size of the descriptors by approximately 2x, it is a pre-mature
optimization since the descriptors themselves are around 1% of the total
binary bloat that is due to generated protobufs.
* Seeding protobuf reflection from the raw descriptor significantly
simplifies the generator implementation since it is no longer responsible
for constructing a tree of Go literals to represent the same information.
* We remove the generation of the shadow types and instead call
protoimpl.MessageType.MessageOf. Unfortunately, this incurs an allocation
for every call to ProtoReflect since we need to allocate a tuple that wraps
a pointer to the message value, and a pointer to message type.
* internal/impl:
* We add a MessageType.GoType field and make it required that it is
set prior to first use. This is done so that we can avoid calling
MessageType.init except for when it is actually needed. The allows code
to call (*FooMessage)(nil).ProtoReflect().Type() without fearing that the
init code will run, possibly triggering a recursive deadlock (where the
init code depends on getting the Type of some dependency which may be
declared within the same file).
* internal/cmd/generate-types:
* The code to generate reflect/prototype/protofile_list_gen.go was copied
and altered to generated internal/fileinit.desc_list_gen.go.
At a high-level this CL adds significant technical complexity.
However, this is offset by several possible future changes:
* The prototype package can be drastically simplified. We can probably
reimplement internal/legacy to use internal/fileinit instead, allowing us
to drop another dependency on the prototype package. As a result, we can
probably delete most of the constructor types in that package.
* With the prototype package significantly pruned, and the fact that generated
code no longer depend on depends on that package, we can consider merging
what's left of prototype into protodesc.
Change-Id: I6090f023f2e1b6afaf62bd3ae883566242e30715
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/158539
Reviewed-by: Herbie Ong <herbie@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
A "_ProtoFile" suffix can potentially conflict with a sub-message named
"ProtoFile" nested within a message that matches the camel-cased
form of the basename of the .proto source file.
Avoid unlikely conflicts and rename this to use a "_protoFile" suffix,
which can never conflict except with an enum value that is also named
"protoFile" (which is a violation of the style guide).
Change-Id: Ie9d22f9f741a63021b8f76906b20c6c2f599885b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157218
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Most usages of New actually prefer to interact with the reflective view
rather than the native Go type. Thus, change New to return that instead.
This parallels reflect.New, which returns the reflective view
(i.e., reflect.Value) instead of native type (i.e., interface{}).
We make the equivalent change to KnownFields.NewMessage, List.NewMessage,
and Map.NewMessage for consistency.
Since this is a subtle change where the type system will not always
catch the changed type, this change was made by both changing the type
and renaming the function to NewXXX and manually looking at every usage
of the the function to ensure that the usage correctly operates
on either the native Go type or the reflective view of the type.
After the entire codebase was cleaned up, a rename was performed to convert
NewXXX back to New.
Change-Id: I153fef627b4bf0a427e4039ce0aaec52e20c7950
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157077
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Drop the protoreflect.ProtoEnum type (containing a single method
returning a protoreflect.Enum) and make generated enum types
directly implement protoreflect.Enum instead.
Messages have a two-level type split (ProtoMessage and Message) to
minimize conflicts between reflection methods and field names. Enums
need no such split, since enums do not have fields and therefore have
no source of conflicts.
Change-Id: I2b6222e9404253e6bfef2217859e1b760ffcd29b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/156902
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Do not treat reserved field names as unknown. Skip over these instead
of returning error for unknown field.
Change-Id: Iba9371fd901a0690e5b7329bccf261570352b55d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/154178
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
This initial textproto unmarshaling implementation covers messages
without the use of extensions, Any expansion, nor weak.
Updated encoding tests. Split some testcases to keep each simpler.
Added TestRoundTrip for example messages like the well-known types.
Change-Id: Icffab02834aa004fa8409a9da70624f687f604fb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/153020
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
This initial implementation covers marshaling Message without use
of extensions, Any expansion, weak yet.
Change-Id: Ic787939c1d2a4e70e40c3a1654c6e7073052b7d3
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/151677
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
