Extra fields in a message causes decode to throw an error

[roberthunt]

I'm working with a protobuf schema which is changing over time, additional optional fields are being added to the message definitions but the parser doesn't seem to be able to handle them.

The Google Protobuf Language Guide (https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#updating) explains "messages created by your new code can be parsed by your old code: old binaries simply ignore the new field when parsing." I understand that there is no requirement for this library to obey these guidelines but it would be nice if it could handle this case instead of falling over with an exception.

I'm using ProtoBuf.noparse.js and the error is coming from line 1012: throw(new Error("Illegal field id in "+this.toString(true)+"#decode: "+id));

Is this something that could be added?

Thanks

[dcodeIO]

Thanks for reporting this! It's fixed in 1.0.3.

[roberthunt]

Great, thanks for the quick response/resolution!