Thanks much for your input.
-Krati
On Friday, June 16, 2023 at 10:23:58 PM UTC+5:30 Deanna Garcia wrote:
> It's the same situation with integers. If we made this return true then if
> you did not set the value and attempted to serialize it it would return
> true. I agree that this behavior isn't optimal, we just don't have a great
> way around it.
>
> On Friday, June 16, 2023 at 5:40:59 AM UTC-7 Krati Chordia wrote:
>
>> Hi Deanna!
>> Agreed to your point. But if there is an integer and it's value is set to
>> 0, even then the parsing returns false. Which should not happen.
>>
>> On Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 11:20:56 PM UTC+5:30 Deanna Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> In protobuf, we can't store null strings so to denote a string that
>>> isn't set we use the empty string. For this reason, the parsing is
>>> returning false to tell you that there isn't a field there but as you're
>>> seeing will still parse as an empty string.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, June 14, 2023 at 1:37:05 AM UTC-7 Krati Chordia wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I am trying to send a message on wire with the following protobuf
>>>> structure
>>>>
>>>> message TestMsg {
>>>> string status = 1;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I create an instance of TestMsg and set status as empty and serialize
>>>> it to a string.
>>>>
>>>> TestMsg m1;
>>>> m1.set_status("");
>>>>
>>>> std::string str = m1.SerializeAsString();
>>>>
>>>> Post serialization, str is sent over wire and tried to be parsed.
>>>> ParseFromString returns false whereas it should not. For any other value,
>>>> it parses successfully.
>>>>
>>>> TestMsg m2;
>>>> m2.ParseFromString(str); <----- this returns false
>>>>
>>>> Also, if I try to retrieve the value of m2.status(), it will return an
>>>> empty string even though the parsing returns false.
>>>>
>>>
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