Support for protobuf timestamppb

[tofluid]

I'd like to be able to use a protobuf generated struct as the database model. An example model can be:

// protoc generated struct
type Foo struct {
    date *timestamppb.Time
}

In this case, timestamppb is not supported by bun. This does have a AsTime() time.Time function but Bun does not know that either.

I've investigated using bun scanner to tell Bun how to use it but from my understanding, timestamppb would need a method called Scan.

The current solution we're using is just to use a composite struct

// manually written struct wrapping the protoc generated struct
type Foo struct {
    *v1.Foo
    Date time.Time
}

It works but is extra code and Date needs to be manually set and read from for each db query.

Does anyone know of a way to get this to work so bun can correctly marshal/unmarshal to/from a timestamppb?

One other option might be to write a plugin for protoc that will make the dates into a composite struct that has a Scan method.