grpc-pb: Support maps #434
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Subsystem
gRPC/Protobuf
Solution
This PR adds support for maps in protobuf messages.
While the user interacts only with Kotlin
Map
s, internally a entry message class in generated that contains the logic for encoding and decoding map entries. This is because a map is nothing but arepeated
field of map entries, where a entry looks like