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 copy the encoding/json package to your own folder for example my_json, and modify omitEmpty field to false, and use my_json.Marshal() to encode the struct to json string.