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Add a generation option to control use of forward declarations in headers. - #9568
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@dmaclach fyi |
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Can you add me as a reviewer? I can't seem to do it for some reason... |
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Approval.. all documentation nits I believe.
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…ders. Swift importing ObjC drops methods/properties if the type is only a forward declaration since the type is incomplete. Historically the generator has always use forward declarations to reduce how much will have rebuild when a proto file does change; but that puts it at odds with Swift. If ObjC Protos end up spanning Swift modules, the Swift import behavior could become a problem; so this option provides a control for the behavior. The current behavior is to continue forward declarations, but eventually the default will be changed. Generate the WKTs using imports instead of forward decls.
Swift importing ObjC drops methods/properties if the type is only a forward
declaration since the type is incomplete. Historically the generator has always
use forward declarations to reduce how much will have rebuild when a proto file
does change; but that puts it at odds with Swift. If ObjC Protos end up spanning
Swift modules, the Swift import behavior could become a problem; so this option
provides a control for the behavior. The current behavior is to continue forward
declarations, but eventually the default will be changed.
Generate the WKTs using imports instead of forward decls.