Support decoding packed messages, even if not annotated as packed
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Description
So we can safely migrate from packed to non-packed and vice-versa. The on-the-wire encoding is sufficient to differentiate the two cases.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating packed-message decoding and its existing tests in the repository, then trace how annotation metadata affects decoding. Done means packed and non-packed wire encodings can both be decoded safely when the message is not annotated as packed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100