BUG: API parse error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/google/api/field_behavior.proto'

[Diego Baldi]

Hi all,

I'm trying to upload an API (GRPC + REST) descriptor to cloud endpoints but I'm getting the following error:

API parse error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/tmp/google/api/field_behavior.proto'

I'm using some field / method options from google (I don't know if the bug is related to "beta" state of some protobuf definitions): https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/tree/master/google/api

To create the descriptor I'm using the following command:

protoc  service.proto --proto_path=api/proto --proto_path=third_party --include_source_info --include_imports --descriptor_set_out=descriptor.pb

In particular I'm getting the same error if I import the following packages (all other imports work fine):

import "google/api/field_behavior.proto";

import "google/protobuf/field_mask.proto";

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Diego

[Wayne Zhang]

You can try to play with the flag "--proto_path".  Try to point to the path where your local folder for github googleapis repo. "protoc" is very dumb on finding the import paths.