Define services nested in proto messages

[ahmet...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I want to define services inside proto messages as below.

Example of a proto file.

syntax = "proto2";

message Sample {
//
}

message Example {
//
   service Service {
      rpc someMethod(Sample) returns Sample;
   }
}

So I can refer to that rpc as 'Example.Service.someMethod'.

There may be another services, methods with the same name as 'AnotherExample.Service.

somMethod' nested in other messages.

This provides a logical relationship between proto
messages and rpc's for me. 

For example, each proto message can have a method called 'init".

Protoc does not support this,  my proto file fails to compile.

How can I achieve this?

[Derek Perez]

That's not how it's intended to be used, perhaps you want to define a package instead?

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[ahmet...@gmail.com]

This is what I have in mind.
This is not supported, I'm investigating whether I can enchance the syntax
of protobuf compiler to achieve this.

syntax ="proto2";

message Sample {

}

message Example {
//
    message SubgMsg {

    //
        service Service {
            rpc someMethod(Sample) returns Sample;
        }
    }

    message AnotherSubMsg {

    //   
        service Service {
            rpc someMethod(Sample) returns Sample;
        }
    }

}

I can refer to them as 'Example.SubgMsg.someMethod' and
'Example.AnotherSubMsg.someMethod'.