CODEWITHSUNDEEP
goprotocol-buffers
stoksc
stoksc

Reputation: 323

How to use `google.protobuf.Any` in Go with primitive types?

I have a message like

message Response {
  google.protobuf.Any id = 1;
  string message = 3;
}

and I would like to encode either an int32 or string in ID.

I can achieve this by making some wrapper type

message IntWrapper {
  int32 id = 1;
}

and using ptypes.MarshalAny from github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes to marshal my new types since they implement proto.Message.

ptypes.MarshalAny(&myproto.IntWrapper{Id: 1})

I'd like to do this without the wrappers. Are there implementations of proto.Message somewhere for plain int32's or string's or another way to do this?

(Footnote: I do not want to implement proto.Message, but have it provided or autogenerated)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3956

Answers (1)

rpatel
rpatel

Reputation: 724

Although wrapping is necessary, Protobuf conveniently provides wrappers for primitive types in google.protobuf.wrappers.proto.

Here is an example of how to use google.protobuf.Any with primitive types in Go using the packages generated from these protos:

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/anypb"
    "google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/wrapperspb"
)

func main() {
    strWrapper := wrapperspb.String("foo")
    strAny, _ := anypb.New(strWrapper)
    fmt.Println(strAny)

    intWrapper := wrapperspb.Int32(123)
    intAny, _ := anypb.New(intWrapper)
    fmt.Println(intAny)
}

Upvotes: 4

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