typedef in proto3 ?

[V R]

Hi, 

I'd like to define a typedef as in C/C++, e.g:

typedef list<double> DoubleVector 

How can I declare that in a proto3 file ?  

I know I can use:

message ListOfDouble {

 repeated double value = 1;

}

But I'd like not to use that if possible in order to have a container of some type.

Thanks.

[Deanna Garcia]

We do not support typedefs in protobuf. We would like proto APIs to be as consistent as possible between languages, so we would not add a feature that is so C/C++ specific. If we were to do something like this, it would be a more generic version of type aliasing. See this thread for a conversation about support for type aliasing.