Full google.protobuf.SourceCodeInfo?

[bufdev]

I saw you just added comment support from the SourceCodeInfos in 6f176a9, what about extending this to include line and column information? This would be useful, especially in the visitor.

[Gorka Lerchundi Osa]

@peter-edge can you explain a use-case in which this would be useful? Now that the parsing methodology is in place it's fairly easy to include this. I can take this one but once we decide a real use-case and an appropriate API for it.

[Gorka Lerchundi Osa]

Reference documentation: https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/1a7a7fca804afa1cf67f8be5e71092898ba40334/src/google/protobuf/descriptor.proto#L788-L793

[bufdev]

I’m writing a self-contained linter and formatter for protobuf, that right now relies on github.com/emicklei/proto, but using the tried-and-tested proto parser in protoc would be ideal.

I would/might write this myself but don’t want to reinvent the wheel as you all have done such a great job here.