Yes, I came to realize that a little after I posted, so I'd deleted the 
original post. We were using 3.0.2, and now I'm trying to get buy in for 3.3

On Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 3:29:57 PM UTC-4, Bo Yang wrote:
>
> Which version are you using?
> It seems the bug has been fixed in the latest release. 
> https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/2f4489a3e504e0a4aaffee69b551c6acc9e08374/src/google/protobuf/util/message_differencer.cc#L470
>
> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:29 PM Alex Shaver <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
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