Exporting of individual Enum Values

[creativepsyco]

Currently Google Protocol Buffer code generation exports a VALUE field for Enums, whereas Wire does not do so. Is this by design?

[JakeWharton]

What does this field contain? The tag number?

[creativepsyco]

Not really something like this:

message EditError
{
    enum ErrorType
    {
        MAX_NUM_OPTIONS = 1;
        MAX_NUM_SESSION = 2;
    }
    required ErrorType Error = 1;
}

In Java I am unable to extract the enum integer value from a Wire code generated class, something that Google Protocol Buffer Code generation allowed me to have via a public EnumName_VALUE field.

[danrice67]

Seems simple enough. You're welcome to submit a pull request to add it, or I can do it sometime after the New Year.

[creativepsyco]

Which code sections should I be looking at? Wire has helped me remove 14K protobuf methods from the generated APK. I shall be very happy to contribute =)

[danrice67]

Look for

writer.beginType(enumType.getName(), "enum", EnumSet.of(PUBLIC));

in MessageEmitter.java.