graph protogen command

[saihaj]

We also want to add a feature that will generate the protobuf-as types... currently this is either done with https://github.com/gravitational/protobuf-as but its broken atm -- @mangas created a branch that works https://github.com/mangas/protobuf-as
Ideally we would have a command in the CLI that was written like this... graph protogen --out=src/pb/ ./proto/*.proto
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[joshuanazareth97]

Hi @saihaj, with your approval will pick this up next. Can we discuss any potential reasons for choosing protobuf-as vs ts-proto with protoc?

[joshuanazareth97]

Hey @saihaj, if you have a moment can we discuss me picking this task? Will work on it today / over the weekend and close by Monday if possible. Just wanted to know about protobuf-ts vs ts-proto for the solution.

[azf20]

thanks so much @joshuanazareth97! @mangas maybe has some context on that?

[joshuanazareth97]

@mangas any input on using one vs the other?

[maoueh]

We explored this a bit recently, see streamingfast/substreams-sink-examples#4.

The substreams protogen command uses buf to facilitate generation. We also used a different code generator than what was used before.