protobuf/docs/design/editions

Protocol Buffers - Protobuf Editions design documents

This directory contains historical design documents that describe plans for implementing Protobuf Editions. For an up-to-date overview of this feature of Protocol Buffers, see Protobuf Editions Overview.

These files represent the state that the original documents were in at the time that they were published to this repository. While some updates may be made to the files after their initial upload, you should consider the possibility that they are outdated as you read them. These are purely for historical value and should not be treated as documentation of the current state.

Note that the authors listed in the topics were the authors of the original version of the document; it may have changed since they last worked on the document.

Design Documents

The following topics are in this repository:

• What are Protobuf Editions?
• Life of an Edition
• Protobuf Editions Design: Features
• Editions: Life of a Featureset
• Edition Zero Features
• Minimum Required Edition
• Protobuf Editions for Schema Producers
• Stricter Schemas with Editions
• Edition Zero: JSON Handling
• Edition Zero: Converged Semantics
• Edition Zero Feature: Enum Field Closedness
• C++ APIs for Edition Zero
• Java Lite For Editions
• Edition Evolution
• Edition Naming
• Editions Feature Visibility
• Legacy Syntax Editions
• Editions: Feature Extension Layout