Sorry to piggy back on this thread, on a related note is there a way to offload protobuf codegen to buf

I am no expert, I just started using Pants, but I don't remember seeing

Buf

in the documentation. Someone recently pointed me to

adhoc_tools

for extending

Pants

. https://www.pantsbuild.org/stable/docs/ad-hoc-tools/integrating-new-tools-without-plugins

Yeah, i see buf is integrated for protobuf linting. Was wondering if generation using buf is also on the roadmap

Also here the code for the

protoc

backend. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/61b79fc6adfc0740c7edf48628504e2d4d5daa10/src/python/pants/backend/codegen/protobuf

Some of our existing workflows already use it & also use it for Typescript stub generation - for which it looks like there is no support in pants yet. Trying to not overload the team is all I am sure i will also run into the bug you posted above!

As an OSS project, “the roadmap” is (within reason) whatever any contributor wants it to be, as long as they step up to do the work. So, assuming

buf

can be a drop-in replacement for

protoc

- I can’t imagine it would be too difficult to implement

Fair enough, still learning the ropes with pants. Will take a deeper look how some backends are implemented.

what are the advantages of buf? or is it just that you’re already using it?