Dealing with unknown fields, server-side
ricsiLT opened this issue · 2 comments
How does one gain access to unknown fields that were parsed on the server side of things? All docs I've seen only mention this from client side. Is it possible, or planned?
Our use-case is that we distribute our protos via nuget and we don't have visibility into when our clients will update, and sometimes server-side applications are a bit behind, leading to some fields being missed when sent from client and then stored by the server. It'd be nice to at least have a warning about that in the logs.
Experimentally, I see that if I receive unknown fields and dump them, I can restore them with new client and it'll be restored completely. So I guess my question boils down to "was adding UnknownFields accessor ever planned?". As the only thing missing is visibility into this, though I see how it'd be considered optional.
I don't know. Those are Protobuf specific questions. I suggest you ask on https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf