tree d31bf456a30c781382db42cfc9c1808320161ac4
parent d6966a4431241439d1513691fa481475749e40e3
author Joe Tsai <joetsai@digital-static.net> 1547031433 -0800
committer Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com> 1547065769 +0000

reflect: switch MessageType.New to return Message

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>