Allow public access to descriptor.proto as a dependency.

With this in place, generating APIs on github.com/google/googleapis works - previously annotations.proto failed.
Currently there's no access to the annotations (stored as extensions) but we could potentially expose those at a later date.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/Reflection/FileDescriptor.cs b/csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/Reflection/FileDescriptor.cs
index 500e467c..bad58faa 100644
--- a/csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/Reflection/FileDescriptor.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/Google.Protobuf/Reflection/FileDescriptor.cs
@@ -368,5 +368,20 @@ namespace Google.Protobuf.Reflection
         {
             return "FileDescriptor for " + proto.Name;
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Returns the file descriptor for descriptor.proto.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// This is used for protos which take a direct dependency on <c>descriptor.proto</c>, typically for
+        /// annotations. While <c>descriptor.proto</c> is a proto2 file, it is built into the Google.Protobuf
+        /// runtime for reflection purposes. The messages are internal to the runtime as they would require
+        /// proto2 semantics for full support, but the file descriptor is available via this property. The
+        /// C# codegen in protoc automatically uses this property when it detects a dependency on <c>descriptor.proto</c>.
+        /// </remarks>
+        /// <value>
+        /// The file descriptor for <c>descriptor.proto</c>.
+        /// </value>
+        public static FileDescriptor DescriptorProtoFileDescriptor { get { return DescriptorProtoFile.Descriptor; } }
     }
 }
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