Added a couple of alternative signatures, protobuf.load returns promise or undefined, aliased Reader/Writer-as-function signature with Reader/Writer.create for typed dialects, see #518

Author: dcodeIO

.npmignore

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.vscode/
 *.log
 npm-debug.*
 node_modules/

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "typescript.tsdk": "./node_modules/typescript/lib"
+}

dist/protobuf.js

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ var protobuf = global.protobuf = exports;
 /**
  * Loads one or multiple .proto or preprocessed .json files into a common root namespace.
  * @param {string|string[]} filename One or multiple files to load
- * @param {Root} [root] Root namespace, defaults to create a new one if omitted.
+ * @param {Root|function(?Error, Root=)} [root] Root namespace, defaults to create a new one if omitted.
  * @param {function(?Error, Root=)} [callback] Callback function
- * @returns {Promise<Root>|Object} A promise if callback has been omitted, otherwise the protobuf namespace
+ * @returns {Promise<Root>|undefined} A promise if `callback` has been omitted
  * @throws {TypeError} If arguments are invalid
  */
 function load(filename, root, callback) {
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ function load(filename, root, callback) {
         root = new protobuf.Root();
     } else if (!root)
         root = new protobuf.Root();
-    return root.load(filename, callback) || protobuf;
+    return root.load(filename, callback);
 }
 
 protobuf.load = load;

dist/protobuf.js.map

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ var _TypeError = util._TypeError;
  * @param {string|undefined} type Method type, usually `"rpc"`
  * @param {string} requestType Request message type
  * @param {string} responseType Response message type
- * @param {boolean} [requestStream] Whether the request is streamed
- * @param {boolean} [responseStream] Whether the response is streamed
+ * @param {boolean|Object} [requestStream] Whether the request is streamed
+ * @param {boolean|Object} [responseStream] Whether the response is streamed
  * @param {Object} [options] Declared options
  */
 function Method(name, type, requestType, responseType, requestStream, responseStream, options) {

dist/protobuf.min.js

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ var _TypeError = util._TypeError;
  * @extends ReflectionObject
  * @constructor
  * @param {string} name Oneof name
- * @param {string[]} [fieldNames] Field names
+ * @param {string[]|Object} [fieldNames] Field names
  * @param {Object} [options] Declared options
  */
 function OneOf(name, fieldNames, options) {