How to Develop a Custom Plugin for protoc

This guide will walk you through the steps to create a plugin for protoc, the protocol buffer compiler. A plugin allows you to generate custom code based on your .proto files. Step 1: Set Up Your Project Create a new directory for your plugin and initialize a new Go module: mkdir myprotocplugin cd myprotocplugin go mod init myprotocplugin Step 2: Define the Main Function Your plugin will read a CodeGeneratorRequest from standard input and write a CodeGeneratorResponse to standard output....

July 8, 2024 · 3 min · Kirill Sysoev