pb.hook cannot handle native types

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4/5
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
backend

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Start by reproducing the unknown type error when calling pb.hook() for the native bytes type. Compare that path with the recursive luatable proto traversal using pb.field(). Done means pb.hook() can handle bytes and encode it into base64 without requiring every field to be fixed manually.

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Description

enhancement

I am trying to hook bytes type to encode it into base64.

While I can hook other types, hooking native types gives me unknown type error.

I tried to recursively traverse the luatable proto representation and fix all the fields of type bytes ( by using pb.field() ), but this is tedious. Moreover, pb.hook() seems to be made exactly for this purpose.

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