golang protobuf remove omitempty tag from generated json tags

Question

I am using google grpc with a json proxy. for some reason i need to remove the omitempty tags from the struct generated in the *.pb.go files.

if i have a pr

Answer 1

A [more] portable solution:

Use sed to strip the tags after generating via protoc.

Example of what I actually use in my go:generate script after having generated the *.pb.go files:

ls *.pb.go | xargs -n1 -IX bash -c 'sed s/,omitempty// X > X.tmp && mv X{.tmp,}'

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Note: sed -i (inline-replacement) is not used here because that flag isn't portable between standard OS-X and Linux.