Add to existing protobuf namespace instead of overwriting it #1460
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Addresses a bug related to loading multiple pbjs-generated JS files on one page.
When loading .js files generated by pbjs (static-module) if those .js files contain protos that belong to the same namespace, they will clobber each other at runtime.
Repro
a.proto
b.proto
After running these commands, a.js and b.js both contain:
So if b.js is loaded after a.js, it will erase the entries created by a.js, and vice versa.
Solution
This PR makes a change to code generation so the protobuf namespaces are extended at runtime:
This changed solved the problem for us at dropbox.