52 exposed a way to list unknown fields for a message. We should support more functionality like
Get unknown fields with a given number
Remove a specified unknown field
One challenge is how to specify the field, since we can have multiple unknown fields with a given number
Insert a new unknown field
What should happen if the given field number corresponds to a known field or extension? We could try to interpret the bytes of the unknown field as the actual field type, or simply return an error.
There is also currently no API to inspect the value of an unknown field. We could expose something like the UnknownFieldValue enum:
52 exposed a way to list unknown fields for a message. We should support more functionality like
There is also currently no API to inspect the value of an unknown field. We could expose something like the
UnknownFieldValueenum:https://github.com/andrewhickman/prost-reflect/blob/15368a7c20b651ecd134d7810c21914202f47371/prost-reflect/src/dynamic/unknown.rs#L24-L37
However if prost ever supports unknown fields, it would be nice to simply re-use its types, so it may be worth staying conservative for now.