tree 7edf697792423ea89f194a7629d364794d487470
parent 5e7de864f5b79e515bdcc708c2c4ef4d74894d9b
author Patrick Hiesel <hiesel@google.com> 1674224269 +0100
committer Patrick Hiesel <hiesel@google.com> 1674231266 +0000

Add code to generate ProtocolBuffers from Gerrit API POJO definitions

This commit adds a first version that I consider work in progress.
We want to generate protocol buffers from the existing API objects.

In an idea future world, we reduce the current duplication of API
data definition we have (Java POJOs, docs, Typescript + 1 for any
programming language any API client uses) to just a single place.

Protocol Buffers seem interesting for that, so we start simply
by offering a tool to generate *.proto files from POJO files. In
fact, we don't even generate files yet, we just dump output to the
CLI.

Known shortcomings and future work:
- Handle list multimaps
- Write files
- Parse doc strings and unify Ascidoc DOCS and POJO docs

Release-Notes: skip
Change-Id: Ie923cf74b6f1916065bb97abde132f9502cc42e8