reflect/protodesc: robustify dependency resolution implementation

Overview of changes:
* Add an option that specifies whether to replace unresolvable references
with a placeholder instead of producing an error. Since the prior behavior
produced placeholders (not always), we default to that behavior for now,
but will enable strict resolving in a future CL.
* The option is not yet exported because there is concern about what the
public API should look like. This will be exposed in a future CL.
* Unlike before, we now permit placeholders for unresolvable enum values.
* We implement relative name resolution logic.
* We handle the case where the type is unknown, but type_name is specified.
In such a case, we populate both FieldDescriptor.{Enum,Message} and leave
the FieldDescriptor.Kind with the zero value. If the type_name happened
to resolve, we use that to determine the type.
* If a placeholder is used to represent a relative name,
the FullName reports an invalid full name with a "*." prefix.

Change-Id: Ifa8c750423c488fb9324eec4d033a2f251505fda
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/protobuf/+/184317
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
6 files changed
tree: 79576a4c07441949a7cff383272cf8d51f32e17c
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  6. proto/
  7. reflect/
  8. runtime/
  9. testing/
  10. types/
  11. .gitignore
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  13. AUTHORS
  14. CONTRIBUTING.md
  15. CONTRIBUTORS
  16. download_benchdata.bash
  17. go.mod
  18. go.sum
  19. integration_test.go
  20. LICENSE
  21. PATENTS
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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.

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Contributing

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Reporting Issues

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