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Scott Baker2d897982019-09-24 11:50:08 -07001// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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30
31// Author: kenton@google.com (Kenton Varda)
32//
33// WARNING: The plugin interface is currently EXPERIMENTAL and is subject to
34// change.
35//
36// protoc (aka the Protocol Compiler) can be extended via plugins. A plugin is
37// just a program that reads a CodeGeneratorRequest from stdin and writes a
38// CodeGeneratorResponse to stdout.
39//
40// Plugins written using C++ can use google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.h instead
41// of dealing with the raw protocol defined here.
42//
43// A plugin executable needs only to be placed somewhere in the path. The
44// plugin should be named "protoc-gen-$NAME", and will then be used when the
45// flag "--${NAME}_out" is passed to protoc.
46
47syntax = "proto2";
48package google.protobuf.compiler;
49option java_package = "com.google.protobuf.compiler";
50option java_outer_classname = "PluginProtos";
51
52option go_package = "github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go/plugin;plugin_go";
53
54import "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto";
55
56// The version number of protocol compiler.
57message Version {
58 optional int32 major = 1;
59 optional int32 minor = 2;
60 optional int32 patch = 3;
61 // A suffix for alpha, beta or rc release, e.g., "alpha-1", "rc2". It should
62 // be empty for mainline stable releases.
63 optional string suffix = 4;
64}
65
66// An encoded CodeGeneratorRequest is written to the plugin's stdin.
67message CodeGeneratorRequest {
68 // The .proto files that were explicitly listed on the command-line. The
69 // code generator should generate code only for these files. Each file's
70 // descriptor will be included in proto_file, below.
71 repeated string file_to_generate = 1;
72
73 // The generator parameter passed on the command-line.
74 optional string parameter = 2;
75
76 // FileDescriptorProtos for all files in files_to_generate and everything
77 // they import. The files will appear in topological order, so each file
78 // appears before any file that imports it.
79 //
80 // protoc guarantees that all proto_files will be written after
81 // the fields above, even though this is not technically guaranteed by the
82 // protobuf wire format. This theoretically could allow a plugin to stream
83 // in the FileDescriptorProtos and handle them one by one rather than read
84 // the entire set into memory at once. However, as of this writing, this
85 // is not similarly optimized on protoc's end -- it will store all fields in
86 // memory at once before sending them to the plugin.
87 //
88 // Type names of fields and extensions in the FileDescriptorProto are always
89 // fully qualified.
90 repeated FileDescriptorProto proto_file = 15;
91
92 // The version number of protocol compiler.
93 optional Version compiler_version = 3;
94
95}
96
97// The plugin writes an encoded CodeGeneratorResponse to stdout.
98message CodeGeneratorResponse {
99 // Error message. If non-empty, code generation failed. The plugin process
100 // should exit with status code zero even if it reports an error in this way.
101 //
102 // This should be used to indicate errors in .proto files which prevent the
103 // code generator from generating correct code. Errors which indicate a
104 // problem in protoc itself -- such as the input CodeGeneratorRequest being
105 // unparseable -- should be reported by writing a message to stderr and
106 // exiting with a non-zero status code.
107 optional string error = 1;
108
109 // Represents a single generated file.
110 message File {
111 // The file name, relative to the output directory. The name must not
112 // contain "." or ".." components and must be relative, not be absolute (so,
113 // the file cannot lie outside the output directory). "/" must be used as
114 // the path separator, not "\".
115 //
116 // If the name is omitted, the content will be appended to the previous
117 // file. This allows the generator to break large files into small chunks,
118 // and allows the generated text to be streamed back to protoc so that large
119 // files need not reside completely in memory at one time. Note that as of
120 // this writing protoc does not optimize for this -- it will read the entire
121 // CodeGeneratorResponse before writing files to disk.
122 optional string name = 1;
123
124 // If non-empty, indicates that the named file should already exist, and the
125 // content here is to be inserted into that file at a defined insertion
126 // point. This feature allows a code generator to extend the output
127 // produced by another code generator. The original generator may provide
128 // insertion points by placing special annotations in the file that look
129 // like:
130 // @@protoc_insertion_point(NAME)
131 // The annotation can have arbitrary text before and after it on the line,
132 // which allows it to be placed in a comment. NAME should be replaced with
133 // an identifier naming the point -- this is what other generators will use
134 // as the insertion_point. Code inserted at this point will be placed
135 // immediately above the line containing the insertion point (thus multiple
136 // insertions to the same point will come out in the order they were added).
137 // The double-@ is intended to make it unlikely that the generated code
138 // could contain things that look like insertion points by accident.
139 //
140 // For example, the C++ code generator places the following line in the
141 // .pb.h files that it generates:
142 // // @@protoc_insertion_point(namespace_scope)
143 // This line appears within the scope of the file's package namespace, but
144 // outside of any particular class. Another plugin can then specify the
145 // insertion_point "namespace_scope" to generate additional classes or
146 // other declarations that should be placed in this scope.
147 //
148 // Note that if the line containing the insertion point begins with
149 // whitespace, the same whitespace will be added to every line of the
150 // inserted text. This is useful for languages like Python, where
151 // indentation matters. In these languages, the insertion point comment
152 // should be indented the same amount as any inserted code will need to be
153 // in order to work correctly in that context.
154 //
155 // The code generator that generates the initial file and the one which
156 // inserts into it must both run as part of a single invocation of protoc.
157 // Code generators are executed in the order in which they appear on the
158 // command line.
159 //
160 // If |insertion_point| is present, |name| must also be present.
161 optional string insertion_point = 2;
162
163 // The file contents.
164 optional string content = 15;
165 }
166 repeated File file = 15;
167}