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

You can try using gogo proto (https://github.com/gogo/protobuf) With the jsontag extension, your proto message would look like

message Status {
  int32 code = 1 [(gogoproto.jsontag) = "code"];
  string message = 2 [(gogoproto.jsontag) = "message"];
}

You can also add more tags, if you like.