This is a work in progress to implement support for automatically parsing and serialising arbitrary JSON into the Google well-known types around https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/google.protobuf#struct and https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/google.protobuf#value.

Changes made to make this work:

• Adding a special type meta field, while changing the respective type hints to something akin to JSON (which can be improved once Python has proper recursive type support)
• Changes to optional handling to facilitate NullValue
• "Transforms" for these special types, to automatically create and parse back the correct protobuf structures for arbitrary JSON
• A lot of serialiser and deserialiser changes

There are still some bugs to sort out before this would be ready:

• Empty Structs are not serialised correctly, they are 0 bytes
• Parsing Structs is broken (see test failures)

Value and a lot of other things seems to generally work.

If someone wants to pick this up and finish it, be my guest. I am submitting this because I do not currently intent on finishing it.