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Instead of accepting a concrete protoregistry.Types type,
accept an interface that provides the necessary functionality
to perform the serialization.
The advantages of this approach:
* There is no need for complex logic to allow a Parent or custom
Resolver on the protoregistry.Types type.
* Users can pass their own custom resolver implementations directly
to the serialization functions.
* This is a more principled approach to plumbing custom resolvers
than the previous approach of overloading behavior on the concrete
Types type.
The disadvantages of this approach:
* A pointer to a concrete type is 8B, while an interface is 16B.
However, the expansion of the {Marshal,Unmarshal}Options structs
should be a concern solved separately from how to plumb custom resolvers.
* The resolver interfaces as defined today may be insufficient to
provide functionality needed in the future if protobuf expands its
feature set. For example, let's suppose the Any message permits
directly representing a enum by name. This would require the ability
to lookup an enum by name. To support that hypothetical need,
we can document that the serializers type-assert the provided Resolver
to a EnumTypeResolver and use that if possible. There is some loss
of type safety with this approach, but provides a clear path forward.
Change-Id: I81ca80e59335d36be6b43d57ec8e17abfdfa3bad
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/protobuf/+/177044
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
Next Generation Go Protocol Buffers
WARNING: This repository is in active development. There are no guarantees about API stability. Breaking changes will occur until a stable release is made and announced.
This repository is for the development of the next major Go implementation of protocol buffers. This library makes breaking API changes relative to the existing Go protobuf library. Of particular note, this API aims to make protobuf reflection a first-class feature of the API and implements the protobuf ecosystem in terms of reflection.
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