Uninterpretable Custom Message Option Ruby Protoc Plugin

[Sean Huang]

Hi all,

I have a protoc ruby plugin that does some codegen. I have defined the following toy custom message option.

import "google/protobuf/descriptor.proto";

extend google.protobuf.MessageOptions {

optional string custom = 600001;

}

message PingRequest {

option (custom) = "123";

}

Later in the plugin, we have the following piece of code that attempts to read the custom option above. `request` below is just an instance of "::Google::Protobuf::Compiler::CodeGeneratorRequest". 

services = request.proto_file.flat_map do |file_desc|

file_desc = T.must(file_desc)

file_desc.message_type.map do |message_desc|

if message_desc.name == "PingRequest"

puts message_desc.options

end

end

end

Interesting enough, `message_desc.options` outputs  <Google::Protobuf::MessageOptions: uninterpreted_option: []>. I wonder if this is expected, or do we have some other way to retrieve the custom option. 

Thanks,

Sean