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Support Not Generating Transitive Proto Dependencies #62
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Alternative proto rulesets (namely stackb) support not generating Java byte code for proto_library.deps() via a transitive attribute.
Today, java_proto_library generates bytecode for both a proto_library's srcs and deps attributes. Generating bytecode for deps can lead to duplicate class exceptions if the consumer also tries to generate and pack the resulting class files into a JAR.
Would you consider supporting a transitive attribute for java_proto_library?
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Yannic commentedon Jun 18, 2020
AFAICT, this should be possible today if you define your own
proto_lang_toolchainand adding the.protofiles that are packed into the.jartoblacklisted_protos.Generating code for transitive (non-blacklisted) protos is by design so you don't have to explicitly mirror the proto-graph for every language, so I think it's unlikely that a transitive attribute will be supported.