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Protoxform support for renamed field anchors

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#9,734 opened on Jan 18, 2020

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Description

https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/9719 has a workaround for the inability of protoxform to intelligently follow field renames in RST links (some minor hardcoding is there for now). We should fix this; either put renames in the type database or make protoxform aware of the entire descriptor pool (similar to how the API booster does it).

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Research direction
Investigate how protoxform processes RST links and field renames, and explore integrating a type database or descriptor pool to track renames automatically. Look at how the API booster handles descriptors.
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cpp
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tooling
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