WKT support

[iamricard]

Hi!

I see Interopability with well knowns. is on the roadmap. Would you be open to a (hopefully simple) PR that maps WKT imports to google-protobuf? For context, this is what we get now:

// got
import * as dependency_1 from "./../../../../google/protobuf/empty";

// want
import * as emptypb from 'google-protobuf/empty_pb';

[iamricard]

Actually, I see on the README that this library does support google-protobuf. Is it possible I'm doing something wrong?

[iamricard]

yeap that one thing could be done. or generate a shim that interops between two.

Do you have a preference on the approach? We really would prefer to use this library, but WKT compat is a blocker so I'd like to see if I can contribute a patch.

[thesayyn]

I can't remember the exact reason why this was failing but I do remember that there was weird runtime code that was generated especially for the WKT.

[thesayyn]

you are welcome to find out why this is not working and send a patch. I'd be more than happy to provide assistance, review and merge it with proper testing.

[thesayyn]

I agree that this is a blocker for us to be drop-in-replacement for the built-in generator.

[thesayyn]

a shim that interops between two is my preferred way.

[thesayyn]

This is fixed with the rust rewrite. Now we support well known types!