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		aaaaaaaaaab on Oct 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arguing against using protobuffers `repeated(oneof(Foo, Bar))` is not the same as `oneof(repeated(Foo), repeated(Bar))`

joshuamorton on Oct 10, 2018 [–]

Correct, both of those are possible to represent as is though. Each oneof just requires and extra proto to wrap it.

So you have

    repeated OneaofWrapper {
      oneof {
        Foo
        Bar
      }
    }

Or what I did in my previous comment.

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