Reading through the source, it does seem like when Compare hits UnpackAny, that 'GetDescriptor' check should avoid the fatal check. However, I'm looking at source from a contemporary git pull, and the version in my software may be an older one, if this is a recent change.
On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 5:06:37 PM UTC-4, Alex Shaver wrote: > > When I have a list of "Any"s, and I want to find if an element in the list > matches some other 'Any' protobuf, I try to use the > util::MessageDifferencer::Equals and I get errors "Comparison between two > messages with different descriptors." I've tried a > message1.GetDescriptor() == message2.GetDescriptor && MessageDifferencer. > Equals(message1, message2) > combination, to hopefully head that off, but I still get the same error, > presumably because the descriptor is getting Any's descriptor, and not the > descriptor of the internal message it contains. > > Is there a way to actually make this comparison work? It seems like the > Equals comparison should have a specific carveout for the 'Any' case to > begin with. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
