On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Marco <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm looking to generate de/serialization for json tagged union messages
> from an external rest api, eg.
> { type: "error", message: "wrong"} or { type:"ok", response: { a: 1, b:
> 2}}.
>
> Reading the docs it seems like an any valued field the type field
> modified json_name  would work similarly, although this isn't supported.
>
> Is there an existing .proto message that would map to those messages? Perhaps
> with some annotation to this more obvious schema, or being able to specify
> a custom tag to determine which case of a oneof is in use (instead of the
> default enum value)?
>
How about something like:

message Response {
  string type = 1;
  message Content {
    int32 a = 1;
    int32 b = 2;
  }
  oneof OneofResponse {
    string message = 2;
    Content response = 3;
  }
}

?


> message Error {
>   string message = 1;
> }
>
> message Second {
>   int64 response = 1;
> }
>
> message MyUnion {
>   oneof Either {
>     Error  err = 1;
>     Ok     ok  = 2;
>   }
> }
>
>
>
>
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