I’ve used protopatch <https://github.com/alta/protopatch> successfully to
solve similar problems.
Cheers,
:) Hein
On Saturday, November 27, 2021 at 4:53:06 PM UTC+1 Sankar wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a database that has a column `2xxCode`. This database is part of a
> legacy system and I cannot make changes to this, as there are multiple
> applications that depend on this, and some of the applications are
> unchangeable.
>
> Now I want to create a new gRPC server in golang that has to interact with
> the data stored in this database.
>
> Since golang variable names cannot begin with a number, I need create a
> `.proto` file which should generate a golang struct member like:
>
> type mystruct {
> TwoxxCode `db:"2xxCode"`
> }
>
> from my .proto file. But I could not find out how to generate a golang
> struct from a .proto file, with adding custom tags to the struct. On
> searching, I found https://github.com/golang/protobuf/issues/52 and the
> second comment on the issue seems very strongly worded as if this would
> never happen in protobuf. Also, the bug seems open for a long time.
>
> How have others solved this problem to add custom tags to proto generated
> golang structs ? Are there any best-known-methods for this ? There were a
> couple of scripts mentioned in the comments, but I am not sure what to
> pick. Any recommendations ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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