Currently we have bson.SetJSONTagFallback to fallback to json tag when no bson tag available, which is pretty useful when using protobuf with mgo, leave generated *.pb.go untouched and get a consistent field name between json & bson.
With the default omitempty tag generated by protobuf, updated struct fields with empty values will not be encoded, leave the database untouched. Adding a switch for ignoring omitempty will gain another benefit that we can keep protobuf performant and make updating operations easier.
Currently we have
bson.SetJSONTagFallbackto fallback to json tag when no bson tag available, which is pretty useful when usingprotobufwithmgo, leave generated*.pb.gountouched and get a consistent field name between json & bson.With the default
omitemptytag generated byprotobuf, updated struct fields with empty values will not be encoded, leave the database untouched. Adding a switch for ignoringomitemptywill gain another benefit that we can keepprotobufperformant and make updating operations easier.