Loader

The official config loader for Tableau.

Prerequisites

TODO: devcontainer

• Development OS: linux
• Init protobuf: bash init.sh

C++

• Install: CMake 3.22 or above
• Change dir: cd test/cpp-tableau-loader
• Generate protoconf: bash ./gen.sh
• Create build dir: mkdir build && cd build
• Run cmake: cmake ../src/
• Build: make -j8, then the bin dir will be generated at test/cpp-tableau-loader/bin.

References

• Protocol Buffers C++ Installation
• Protocol Buffers C++ Reference

Go

• Install: go1.18 or above
• Install protoc-gen-go: go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
• Change dir: cd test/go-tableau-loader
• Generate protoconf: bash ./gen.sh
• Build: go build

References

• Protocol Buffers Go Reference

TypeScript

Requirements

• nodejs v16.0.0
• protobufjs v7.2.3

Test

• Change dir: cd test/ts-tableau-loader
• Install depedencies: npm install
• Generate protoconf: npm run generate
• Test: npm run test

Problems in protobufjs:

• Unable to use Google well known types
• google.protobuf.Timestamp deserialization incompatible with canonical JSON representation
• Implement wrapper for google.protobuf.Timestamp, and correctly generate wrappers for static target.

protobufjs: Reflection vs. static code

If using reflection (.proto or JSON) but not static code, then proto3-json-serializer is a good option.

References:

• How to Setup a TypeScript + Node.js Project