reflect/protodesc: split descriptor related functionality from prototype

In order to generate descriptor.proto, the generated code would want to depend
on the prototype package to construct the reflection data structures.
However, this is a problem since descriptor itself is one of the dependencies
for prototype. To break this dependency, we do the following:
* Avoid using concrete *descriptorpb.XOptions messages in the public API, and
instead just use protoreflect.ProtoMessage. We do lose some type safety here
as a result.
* Use protobuf reflection to interpret the Options message.
* Split out NewFileFromDescriptorProto into a separate protodesc package since
constructing protobuf reflection from the descriptor proto obviously depends
on the descriptor protos themselves.

As part of this CL, we check in a pre-generated version of descriptor and plugin
that supports protobuf reflection natively and switchover all usages of those
protos to the new definitions. These files were generated by protoc-gen-go
from CL/150074, but hand-modified to remove dependencies on the v1 proto runtime.

Change-Id: I81e03c42eeab480b03764e2fcbe1aae0e058fc57
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/152020
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
33 files changed
tree: fb0fcad7d8b7d85fef67ab861468d52849707bc8
  1. cmd/
  2. encoding/
  3. internal/
  4. proto/
  5. protogen/
  6. reflect/
  7. runtime/
  8. types/
  9. .gitignore
  10. .travis.yml
  11. AUTHORS
  12. CONTRIBUTING.md
  13. CONTRIBUTORS
  14. go.mod
  15. go.sum
  16. LICENSE
  17. PATENTS
  18. README.md
  19. regenerate.bash
  20. 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.