It seems the URL
http://google3/experimental/users/acozzette/map_reflection_test.cc?rcl=158157727
is not working, I can not access it :-(


Regards,
Qian Zhang

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Adam Cozzette <[email protected]> wrote:

> Here's an example of how to do it: http://google3/
> experimental/users/acozzette/map_reflection_test.cc?rcl=158157727 It's a
> bit clunky because you just have to reflect on the map field like you would
> a repeated field, but it works.
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:08 PM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Adam.
>>
>> Can you please let me know which API I can use to do reflection on a map?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Qian Zhang
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Adam Cozzette <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Doing reflection on a map is a little bit tricky, but the way to do it
>>> is to treat it as a repeated field since that is how it is actually
>>> represented on the wire. A map is a stored as a repeated message field,
>>> where in each message the key is field 1 and the value is field 2.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Adam,
>>>>
>>>> We are using picojson <https://github.com/kazuho/picojson> to parse
>>>> the JSON file.
>>>>
>>>> After more debugging, I think I have found the root cause: In the code
>>>> here
>>>> <https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/1.2.0/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/protobuf.hpp#L575>,
>>>> we are trying to find a field by the key of an entry in a map, obviously it
>>>> will fail since the key of any map entries is not in the protobuf message
>>>> definition (the .proto file), and to avoid finding field by a map entry's
>>>> key, in this method
>>>> <https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/1.2.0/3rdparty/stout/include/stout/protobuf.hpp#L387:L407>,
>>>> we need to check if "field->is_map()" is true which is currently missed, if
>>>> the field is a map, then we should use the reflection to construct a map
>>>> message, however I do not find a method in protobuf to do that, I find a
>>>> lot of "Addxxx()" methods (e.g., "AddString()", "AddInt64()", etc.), but
>>>> not a method for adding a map. There is a method
>>>> "InsertOrLookupMapValue()", but that is a private method which I can not
>>>> call in my code.
>>>>
>>>> So can you please suggest how to add a map message? Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Qian Zhang
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:02 AM, Adam Cozzette <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It looks to me like your JSON syntax is right. Could you post the C++
>>>>> code you are using to parse the JSON file?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Qian Zhang <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a C++ project in which there is a .proto file, and in that
>>>>>> file, there is protobuf message which has a map field:
>>>>>> "map<string, string> annotations = 5;"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And the JSON file to be parsed with that .proto file has the
>>>>>> following content:
>>>>>> "annotations": {
>>>>>>   "com.example.key1": "value1",
>>>>>>   "com.example.key2": "value2"
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The .proto file is in proto2 syntax (it has "syntax = "proto2";" at
>>>>>> the beginning) and I am using protobuf-3.3.0, the compilation succeed, 
>>>>>> but
>>>>>> I found the annotation map always has only one entry, and both the 
>>>>>> entry's
>>>>>> key and value are "" which is obviously not correct.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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