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V2: Introduce DescMessage.field #839

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In some situations, it's useful to be able to refer to a field by name.

DescMessage provides all fields in the property fields: DescField[] - that's convenient to loop through all fields, but it's awkward to pick a field by name.

This PR adds another property to DescMessage:

/**
 * All fields of this message by their "localName".
 */
readonly field: Record<string, DescField>;

In generated code, the property is a type-safe record. You get autocomplete for field names, and a typo is a compile-time error:

import { UserDesc } from "./gen/example_pb.js";

UserDesc.field.firstName; // DescField
UserDesc.field.firstNam; // type error

This PR also changes the signatures of isFieldSet and clearField to make use of this new feature. Instead of having to pass in the message descriptor, the message, and the field name, both functions only require two arguments now: The message, and the field:

import { create, clearField } from "@bufbuild/protobuf";
import { UserDesc } from "./gen/example_pb.js";

const user = create(UserDesc);
clearField(user, UserDesc.field.firstName);

@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ function addFields(
const oneof = findOneof(proto, allOneofs);
const field = newField(proto, message, reg, oneof, mapEntries);
message.fields.push(field);
message.field[field.localName] = field;
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We're eagerly populating the record - it's quite simple and cheap.

} from "@bufbuild/protobuf/wkt";

/**
* Get comments on the package element in the protobuf source.
*/
export function getPackageComments(desc: DescFile): DescComments {
return findComments(desc.proto.sourceCodeInfo, [
FieldNumber.FileDescriptorProto_Package,
FileDescriptorProtoDesc.field.package.number,
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That's a nice practical example of where this feature can be useful. I imagine it will also be useful to construct FieldMasks.

Comment on lines +37 to +41
field: DescField,
): boolean {
const field = messageDesc.fields.find((f) => f.localName === fieldName);
if (field) {
return unsafeIsSet(message, field);
}
return false;
return (
field.parent.typeName == message.$typeName && unsafeIsSet(message, field)
);
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Same as before, a foreign field is never set, and clearing a foreign field is a no-op.

@timostamm timostamm changed the title Introduce DescMessage.field V2: Introduce DescMessage.field May 13, 2024
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