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Unable to import proto file that depends upon another protofile

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Describe the bug I have a proto file, a.proto, that has a dependency upon a message in a different proto file, b.proto. To get around this, I am forced to move all of my proto definitions into one file.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Simplified version: b.proto

message FooStruct {
  string foo = 1;
}

a.proto

message BarStruct {
  string bar = 1;
  Foostruct imported_struct = 2;
}

Try to import a.proto and receive the following (I have omitted my actual file names and substituted the above)

Error: no such Type or Enum 'FooStruct' in Type BarStruct
    at Type.lookupTypeOrEnum (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86897:15)
    at Field.resolve (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:74747:94)
    at Type.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:114185:21)
    at Namespace.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Namespace.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Namespace.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Namespace.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Namespace.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Root.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:86794:25)
    at Root.resolveAll (file:///Applications/Insomnia.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/bundle.js:115345:43)


**Expected behavior**
I should be able to import proto files that have imports from other proto files.

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**Desktop (please complete the following information):**
Version: Insomnia 2021.3.0-beta.1
Release date: 4/21/2021
OS: Darwin x64 19.6.0
Electron: 9.3.5
Node: 12.14.1
V8: 8.3.110.13-electron.0
Architecture: x64
node-libcurl: libcurl/7.73.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1j zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.9 libidn2/2.1.1 libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

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State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

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2reactions

fabitamascommented, Apr 11, 2022

It is not always possible to load the parent folder. Some projects rely on other open source projects, for example I’m importing timestamp from google:

import “google/protobuf/timestamp.proto”;

Is this not supported by Insomnia?

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develohpandacommented, May 1, 2021

@sasidakh that seems to be unrelated (maybe OS specific), could you please open another issue (and share your OS details) please? Thanks!