Parsing protos in runtime

[lotus-x]

Hi,

I want to serdes proto messages in runtime with kafka schema registry.

Does the library support for parsing a proto string in runtime, get reflection details and encode/decode messages on the fly?

[timostamm]

Hey, this library does not implement a parser for proto - so this is not possible from proto files. Proto parsing is unfortunately not trivial, there are many edge cases that are only specified by the implementation protoc.

If you have file descriptors (protoc can output them) you can create protobuf-ts types at runtime. This requires quite a bit of translation from descriptors to our own simplified metadata. interpreter.ts does exactly that. It is not a happy path though, this isn't part of the public API.