Is there work being done on ignore attribute ? If yes, what still needs to be done ?

[DontBreakAlex]

While migrating code from serde_json I encountered this issue: #174.
In some places, I use #[serde(skip)], which is not currenctly possible with prost. While browsing the code, I found several references to ignore attributes, like this

prost/prost-derive/src/field/mod.rs

Lines 33 to 37 in 6658ab4

	/// If the field should be ignored, `None` is returned.
	pub fn new(attrs: Vec<Attribute>, inferred_tag: Option<u32>) -> Result<Option<Field>, Error> {
	let attrs = prost_attrs(attrs);
	// TODO: check for ignore attribute.

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Is there work being done on this ?
If yes, what remains to be done ?
If no, how much work would be needed to implement this ?

[LucioFranco]

Hi, I don't actually know how much work but I doubt its an incredible amount of work since I imagine you just need to feed some config through. I think we could support this but beyond that I don't have much info. If you're interested I would accept a PR that adds this and can mentor a bit via discord in the discord.gg/tokio #prost channel.

[DontBreakAlex]

Ok then ! I'll take a look next weekend and drop a message on discord If I need information

[DontBreakAlex]

I dug a bit deeper and found this commit in @r3v2d0g's PR. Do you think I can cherry-pick it to get it merged ?

[LucioFranco]

Yeah, will need some thorough tests though. But the commit looks small and sizable that we can include it easily.