In order to generate descriptor.proto, the generated code would want to depend
on the prototype package to construct the reflection data structures.
However, this is a problem since descriptor itself is one of the dependencies
for prototype. To break this dependency, we do the following:
* Avoid using concrete *descriptorpb.XOptions messages in the public API, and
instead just use protoreflect.ProtoMessage. We do lose some type safety here
as a result.
* Use protobuf reflection to interpret the Options message.
* Split out NewFileFromDescriptorProto into a separate protodesc package since
constructing protobuf reflection from the descriptor proto obviously depends
on the descriptor protos themselves.
As part of this CL, we check in a pre-generated version of descriptor and plugin
that supports protobuf reflection natively and switchover all usages of those
protos to the new definitions. These files were generated by protoc-gen-go
from CL/150074, but hand-modified to remove dependencies on the v1 proto runtime.
Change-Id: I81e03c42eeab480b03764e2fcbe1aae0e058fc57
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/152020
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
The legacy prefix made sense when this functionality was part of impl.
Now that it is in its own package called legacy, the legacy prefix is silly.
Change-Id: I9e6ddb6185ce1f701e02768b505e6a05f3986f77
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/152543
Reviewed-by: Herbie Ong <herbie@google.com>
The impl package currently supports wrapping legacy v1 enums and messages
so that they implement the v2 reflective APIs. This functionality is necessary
for v1 and v2 to interoperate. However, the existence of this functionality
presents several problems:
* A significant portion of the complexity in impl is for legacy wrapping.
* This complexity is linked into a Go binary even if all the other messages
in the binary natively support v2 reflection.
* It presents a cyclic dependency when trying to generate descriptor proto.
Suppose you are generating descriptor.proto. The generated code would want to
depend on the impl package because impl is the runtime implementation for
protobuf messages. However, impl currently depends depends on descriptor in
order to wrap legacy enum and messages since it needs the ability to dynamically
create new protobuf descriptor types. In the case of descriptor.proto, it would
presumably be generated with native reflection support, so the legacy wrapping
logic is unneccessary.
To break the dependency of impl on descriptor, we move the legacy support logic
to a different package and instead add hooks in impl so that legacy support could
be dynamically registered at runtime. This is dependency injection.
Change-Id: I01a582908ed5629993f6699e9bf2f4bee93857a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/151877
Reviewed-by: Herbie Ong <herbie@google.com>
