How to locally build protovalidate protos?

[rishabh2a]

In this commit: 265d689
how did we build these files?

I am trying to downgrade proto to 3.19.1, but these files are generated with a newer protoc compiler, so they're giving errors.

How can I re-generate these files with an older protoc compiler?

[rishabh2a]

Adding some more details:
First issue I encountered was cel was using newer proto runtime. I moved it to 3.19.1 with the following changes in CEL:

repo: cel-java:
checkout v0.4.4
gradle/libs.version.toml: protobuf = "3.25.1" => protobuf = "3.19.1"
All unit tests pass.

Now, publish to mavenLocal

repo: protovalidate-java
checkout v0.2.1

buf.gen.yaml:

• plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v25.3 => - plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v21.7

buf.gen.imports.yaml:

• plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v25.3 => - plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v21.7

buf.gen.noimports.yaml:

• plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v25.3 => - plugin: buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v21.7

gradle/libs.versions.toml:
cel = "0.4.4" => cel = "0.4.4-LOCAL"
protobuf = "3.25.3" => protobuf = "3.21.7"
<Since buf.build/protocolbuffers/java:v19.1 doesn't exist, I'm trying to move to protobuf 3.21.7>

run ./gradlew generate => files are generated successfully

run ./gradlew test => fails

/home/user/repos/protovalidate-java/conformance/src/main/java/build/buf/validate/conformance/cases/RepeatedMinAndMaxItemLen.java:46: error: emptyList() is not public in LazyStringArrayList; cannot be accessed from outside package
      com.google.protobuf.LazyStringArrayList.emptyList();
                                             ^
/home/user/repos/protovalidate-java/conformance/src/main/java/build/buf/validate/conformance/cases/RepeatedMinAndMaxItemLen.java:278: error: emptyList() is not public in LazyStringArrayList; cannot be accessed from outside package
          com.google.protobuf.LazyStringArrayList.emptyList();
                                                 ^
/home/user/repos/protovalidate-java/conformance/src/main/java/build/buf/validate/conformance/cases/RepeatedMinAndMaxItemLen.java:422: error: emptyList() is not public in LazyStringArrayList; cannot be accessed from outside package
        com.google.protobuf.LazyStringArrayList.emptyList();
                                               ^
/home/user/repos/protovalidate-java/conformance/src/main/java/build/buf/validate/conformance/cases/RepeatedMinAndMaxItemLen.java:511: error: emptyList() is not public in LazyStringArrayList; cannot be accessed from outside package
        com.google.protobuf.LazyStringArrayList.emptyList();

[nicksnyder]

Hey rishabh2a, you are using a very old version of protoc from 2021. Going to close this since this issue is a bit old and we have made a few updates to this project since then, but if you are having a problem feel free to file a new issue.