fix: descriptor extensions handling post-editions#2075
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A recent change (protobufjs#2075) edited descriptor.proto to include a `reserved` statement that combines a field number and field name in the same line. This is specifically called out in the proto language guide as invalid. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/editions/#reserved > Note that you can’t mix field names and numeric values in the same > `reserved` statement. Protobuf.js itself seems to handle this syntax just fine, but other tools like protoc will choke on it.
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A recent change (#2075) edited descriptor.proto to include a `reserved` statement that combines a field number and field name in the same line. This is specifically called out in the proto language guide as invalid. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/editions/#reserved > Note that you can’t mix field names and numeric values in the same > `reserved` statement. Protobuf.js itself seems to handle this syntax just fine, but other tools like protoc will choke on it.
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This extension had virtually no test coverage and was already fairly buggy in proto2/proto3. The addition of editions support broke it completely though, notably #2068 which added some caching that doesn't work in the case of root-less types.
This PR adds some basic test coverage, and cleans up the code to work more smoothly under editions. It is still not safe to use it in the following cases, where it will produce bad results:
Fixes #2072