Pass type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue to pb.Any

[Alp4ka]

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Describe the Issue

Hello!

Currently I'am having issues with passing a value to an Any field as a part of GRPC request. Here is my request described in postman window in JSON format:

{
    "filter": {
        "criteria_list": [
            {
                "FilterLabel": "PaymentID",
                "operator": "OPERATOR_EQUAL",
                "operand": {
                        "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue",
                        "value": "e664008e-5f12-42b5-a717-44f8a4601a7b"
                  }
            }
        ],
        "limit": "0",
        "offset": "0",
        "sort_list": [
            {
                "FilterLabel": "PaymentStatus",
                "sort_direction": "SORT_DIRECTION_ASCENDING"
            }
        ]
    }
}

"operand" field is "google/protobuf/any.proto.Any". So the idea to pass string values supposes that I pack type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue into Any. An 'Any' field JSON representation looks like following:

{
    "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.StringValue",
    "value": "my_value"
}

So the problem is that i cannot pass UUID values into 'value' field since the postman UI shows next error:

String does not match the pattern of "^([a-zA-Z0-9+/]{4})*([a-zA-Z0-9+/]{2}(==)?|[a-zA-Z0-9+/]{3}=?)?$".
bytes

A string of base64, or an array of numbers between 0 and 255

, whilst I can still pass it via grpc client as usual. I'd really appreciate if you suggest workarounds for my case without changing contract for service.

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Postman: Version11.5.0 UI version: 11.5.0-ui-240716-0437 Desktop platform version: 11.5.0 Architecture: arm64 OS platform: OS X 22.6.0

Steps To Reproduce

enum Operator {
  OPERATOR_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
  OPERATOR_EQUAL = 1;
  OPERATOR_LESS_THAN = 2;
  OPERATOR_GREATER_THAN = 3;
  OPERATOR_LESS_OR_EQUAL_THAN = 4;
  OPERATOR_GREATER_OR_EQUAL_THAN = 5;
  OPERATOR_NOT_EQUAL = 6;
  OPERATOR_IN = 7;
  OPERATOR_NOT_IN = 8;
}

enum SortDirection {
  SORT_DIRECTION_UNSPECIFIED = 0;
  SORT_DIRECTION_ASCENDING = 1;
  SORT_DIRECTION_DESCENDING = 2;
}

message Criteria {
  string filter_label = 1;
  Operator operator = 2;
  repeated google.protobuf.Any operand = 3;  // protolint:disable:this REPEATED_FIELD_NAMES_PLURALIZED
}

message Sort {
  string filter_label = 1;
  SortDirection direction = 2;
}

message Filter {
  repeated Criteria criteria_list = 1;
  repeated Sort sort_list = 2;
  int64 limit = 3;
  int64 offset = 4;
}

message ListRequest {
  Filter filter = 1;
}

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Operating System

macOS

Postman Version

11.5.0

Postman Platform

Postman App

User Account Type

Signed In User

Additional Context?

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[Alp4ka]

It's suggested to pass values in base64 encoding, but it makes much difficulties for testers and analysts. I've made a short pre-request script to base64-encode every ListRequest.filter.criteria_list.operand value, but it seems like I can't avoid Postman's warnings about the wrong contract.

[Alp4ka]

@appurva21 Hey! Recently noticed that Kreya client works well with this kind of fields:

[TimurIskandarov]

@Alp4ka regular expression for a string in base64 format

[Alp4ka]

@Alp4ka regular expression for a string in base64 format

Yeah, and I guess it's unnecessary.

[williamohara]

This would work much better if postman just fully supported serialization deserialization of pb.Any (like Kreya). I see you started supporting google timestamps (👍🏼 ) is there any issue out there for pb.Any @appurva21 ?

[appurva21]

@Alp4ka @williamohara Thanks for bringing this up!

I acknowledge that the current experience with google.protobuf.Any fields isn't ideal. We'll get this sorted soon.

[ankurdengla]

Hey everyone!

Thanks for reporting the issue and for your patience. The issue has been fixed in Postman v11.69.7. You should now be able to send @type along with the associated value keys in google.protobuf.Any fields.

Please update to the latest version to get the fix, and feel free to reopen this issue if you continue to experience any problems.