Just pointer fields. Data section fields are always "non-optional".

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 6:48 PM Dan Appel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does this mean that every field (including lists) is nullable? That's
> quite a shame. Looks like all my generated fields are going to be
> implicitly-unwrapped-optional, then (reminds me of objective-c translated
> into swift).
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 6:14 PM Dan Appel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Oh, well now I feel silly :) Thanks for pointing that out!
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:53 PM David Renshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Those are null pointers. A `has()` accessor would return `false` for them,
> and a `get()` accessor would return the default value. See
> https://capnproto.org/faq.html#how-do-i-make-a-field-optional
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Dan Appel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I have a question. In my structs I'm running into pointers that have
> the value of 0 (the UInt64 pointer itself). What do I do with these? Is it
> an error on my end that I'm running into these in the first place? I've
> been trying to debug this for a few hours now and I can't find the source
> of the issue.
>
> Here's some logs that I got from reading CodeGeneratorRequest.ptrs[0]
> (nodes @0 :List(Node)) - link
> <https://gist.github.com/Danappelxx/a4536c946e56919ad6765a550a19c1e5>.
>
> I'm leaning on this being my fault somewhere in the parsing but just
> wanted to make sure I'm not missing something before I dive deeper.
>
>
> On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 6:03:28 PM UTC-7, Dan Appel wrote:
>
> Hi! I've been working on a Swift compiler plugin for the past week or so,
> and have been making decent progress. I've run into a few blind spots in
> the encoding spec (i.e. unions) but seemed to have gotten over the major
> humps.
>
> Just wanted to let people know in case somebody has tips or concerns.
>
> I'll also use this thread as a place to ask any future questions that I
> may have :)
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