Generating custom files in the same directory as protoc

[SonarBeserk]

I am working on a project that requires generating .ico files as well as text files. Previously I used AddGeneratorTemplateFile to generate from a template, however with the new utf-8 validation this is no longer possible. AddCustomTemplateFile allows the file to be generated but the issue is that it is generated in the wrong directory. The output path is constantly returned as "." regardless of what the protoc parameters are set to.

[rodaine]

This is a limitation of protoc, where plugins are not given the output path from the execution (the value after the :). PG* supports setting a output_path param to override this behavior. So your protoc execution should look something like the following:

protoc \
  myplugin_out="output_path=${OUTPUT}:${OUTPUT}"\
  my_proto.proto