The terminology Vector does not occur in protobuf documentation at all,
so we should rename the Go use of the term to something more recognizable.
As such, all instances that match the regexp "[Vv]ect(or)?" were replaced.
The C++ documentation uses the term "Repeated", which is a reasonable name.
However, the term became overloaded in 2014, when maps were added as a feature
and implementated under the hood as repeated fields. This is confusing as it
means "repeated" could either refer to repeated fields proper (i.e., explicitly
marked with the "repeated" label in the proto file) or map fields. In the case
of the C++ reflective API, this is not a problem since repeated fields proper
and map fields are interacted with through the same RepeatedField type.
In Go, we do not use a single type to handle both types of repeated fields:
1) We are coming up with the Go protobuf reflection API for the first time
and so do not need to piggy-back on the repeated fields API to remain backwards
compatible since no former usages of Go protobuf reflection exists.
2) Map fields are commonly represented in Go as the Go map type, which do not
preserve ordering information. As such it is fundamentally impossible to present
an unordered map as a consistently ordered list. Thus, Go needs two different
interfaces for lists and maps.
Given the above situation, "Repeated" is not a great term to use since it
refers to two different things (when we only want one of the meanings).
To distinguish between the two, we'll use the terms "List" and "Map" instead.
There is some precedence for the term "List" in the protobuf codebase
(e.g., "getRepeatedInt32List").
Change-Id: Iddcdb6b78e1e60c14fa4ca213c15f45e214b967b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/149657
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Change the API to use explicit Has/Clear methods instead of relying on the
"invalid" form of Value to represent nullability.
There are several reasons for this change:
* Much of the ecosystem around protobufs do not care about nullability alone.
For example, for the encoder to determine whether to emit a field:
it needs to first check if a field is nulled, and if not, it still needs to go
through a series of type-assertion to check whether the value is the zero value.
It is much easier to be able to just call Has.
* It enables representing the default value as part of the value API, rather
than only as part of the descriptor API.
* The C++ API also uses explicit has and clear methods. However, we differ from
them by defining Has for proto3 scalars (while C++ panics instead).
For internal consistency, we also use a Has/Clear API for Maps.
Change-Id: I30eda482c959d3e1454d72d9fc761c761ace27a6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/134998
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Package protoreflect provides APIs for programatically interacting with messages
according to the protobuf type system.
Change-Id: I11fa3874e4b3f94771514c69efb2ae8bb812d7fa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/127823
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
