How to control the order of field while converting a protobuf message to string using TextFormat in java?

[tuk]

Cross-posting from stackoverflow

 have a protobuf message which when converted to string using TextFormat.printToString()

deploymentDef {
  id: "PX3C1ED"
  default: true
  type: ONPREM
  limits {
    clusterSize: 3
    limits {
      numVMs: 18000
      numVMsWithFlows: 18000
      activeFlows: 6000000
      totalFlows: 24000000
      flowPlanning: 4000000
      numDevices: 40
    }
  }
  isEnterprise: false
  brickSize: XLARGE
  clusterSize: 3
  description: "Default Role, Non-Enterprise, App-Discovery and Vf services stopped"
}

The proto definition looks like below

message DeploymentDef {
    optional string id = 1;
    optional bool default = 2;
    optional DeploymentType type = 3;
    optional PlatformClusterLimits limits = 4;
    repeated Role roles = 5;
    optional bool isEnterprise = 6;
    optional Configs overrides = 7;
    optional BrickSize brickSize = 8;
    optional int32 clusterSize = 9;
    optional string description = 10;
}

Is it possible to display description as the first field while converting the proto message to string using TextFormat.printToString() ? 

[Marc Gravell]

I would imagine that most implementations are still going to use field number order. Is there a specific reason you need to control it? Most JSON tools won't care, and if you want to control the JSON, frankly you shouldn't be using an opinionated serializer like protobuf - you should be using a suitable highly configurable JSON-dedicated serializer for your platform.

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