Decoding protobufs when a new field comes in breaks

[bobbytables]

There's a bug when an upstream service adds a new protocol buffer field and sends it along to a Ruby temporal worker. For example, we have a service written in Go that has an update protocol buffer message that is being serialized. The activity that executes with the message as an input is written in Ruby. The error is:

Google::Protobuf::ParseError: Error occurred during parsing: Error parsing JSON @1:845: No such field: newField

The offending line is here:

temporal-ruby/lib/temporal/connection/converter/payload/proto_json.rb

Line 18 in 3fbc675

descriptor.msgclass.decode_json(payload.data)

Honestly, I don't know if this is the responsibility of this library or from Google protobufs. In Go, you can explicitly say ignore unknown fields, however Ruby does not seem to have this behavior. So I'm not sure what to do or if anyone has any exceptions. Protobufs should be compatible with deserializing into messages it doesn't know about new fields.