Enabling 'include_imports' in protoc build command broken (or documentation gap)

[martijnjanssen]

Updating all dependencies (@bufbuild/protobuf, @bufbuild/protoc-gen-es, @connectrpc/connect, @connectrpc/connect-web) to V2 results in the error Could not resolve "./buf/validate/validate_pb". From the migration guide it is very clear that this issue is to be resolved by setting include_imports: true in the buf.build file. Great!

What is missing is how to include it in a protoc build command. I cannot figure out how to correctly enable that setting from the cli.

protoc \
	-I. \
	-I./bufbuild/protoc-gen-validate \
	-I./proto \
--plugin ./node_modules/.bin/protoc-gen-es \
--es_out ./proto \
--es_opt target=ts \
--es_include_imports \
*.proto

Results in the error:
Unknown flag: --es_include_imports

I cannot seem to figure out how to set it, or it is broken, given how new the setting is.

[srikrsna-buf]

include_imports is a feature of buf and is not part of the plugin. For protoc you will have to generate code for validate files as well:

cd ./bufbuild/protoc-gen-validate
protoc \
	-I. \
--plugin ../../node_modules/.bin/protoc-gen-es \
--es_out ../../proto \
--es_opt target=ts \
**/*.proto

[martijnjanssen]

Right, that helps a lot. Cheers!