internal/impl: add message validator

This adds a experimental function to the internal/impl package which
validates a wire-format message against a message type. The validator
reports whether the message can be successfully unmarshaled, and whether
the result is initialized (all required fields are set). In some cases,
the validator returns ambiguous results when full validation would be
expensive.

The validator is unused outside of tests. In the future, it may be used
to permit lazy unmarshaling of some data. It is being added now for
testing; in particular, the wire fuzzer now checks the validator output
for consistency with the unmarshaler.

The validator adds a small amount of unused per-MessageType state. If
this becomes a concern, we could conditionalize it with a build tag.

Change-Id: I4216ef81d6a9ed975302eed189b02d08608858b4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/protobuf/+/212302
Reviewed-by: Joe Tsai <thebrokentoaster@gmail.com>
11 files changed
tree: a02721e50f55d56f12ded8a6ffc87e52ac0e7157
  1. benchmarks/
  2. cmd/
  3. compiler/
  4. encoding/
  5. internal/
  6. proto/
  7. reflect/
  8. runtime/
  9. testing/
  10. types/
  11. .gitignore
  12. .travis.yml
  13. AUTHORS
  14. CONTRIBUTING.md
  15. CONTRIBUTORS
  16. go.mod
  17. go.sum
  18. integration_test.go
  19. LICENSE
  20. PATENTS
  21. README.md
  22. regenerate.bash
  23. release.bash
  24. test.bash
README.md

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.

Design Documents

List of relevant design documents:

Contributing

We appreciate community contributions. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Reporting Issues

Issues regarding the new API can be filed at github.com/golang/protobuf. Please use a APIv2: prefix in the title to make it clear that the issue is regarding the new API work.