aconfig: add dump protobuf format

Introduce a new protobuf format to represent the all flags parsed by
aconfig. This data in this new format is similar to that of the internal
cache object, but the protobuf is a public API for other tools to
consume and any changes to the proto spec must be backwards compatible.

When aconfig has matured more, Cache can potentially be rewritten to
work with proto structs directly, removing some of the hand-written
wrapper structs and the logic to convert to and from the proto structs.
At this point, the intermediate json format can be replaced by the
protobuf dump.

Also, teach `aconfig dump` to accept an --out <file> argument (default:
stdout).

Also, teach `aconfig dump` to read more than once cache file.

Note: the new protobuf fields refer to existing fields. It would make
sense to split the .proto file in one for input and one for output
formats, and import the common messages, but the Android build system
and cargo will need different import paths. Keep the definitions in the
same file to circumvent this problem.

Bug: 279485059
Test: atest aconfig.test
Change-Id: I55ee4a52c0fb3369d91d61406867ae03a15805c3
6 files changed
tree: 6fdbd1c177927fa8af7fc17c76625bfef092ae8a
  1. common/
  2. core/
  3. packaging/
  4. target/
  5. tests/
  6. tools/
  7. .gitignore
  8. banchanHelp.sh
  9. buildspec.mk.default
  10. Changes.md
  11. CleanSpec.mk
  12. Deprecation.md
  13. envsetup.sh
  14. help.sh
  15. METADATA
  16. navbar.md
  17. OWNERS
  18. PREUPLOAD.cfg
  19. rbesetup.sh
  20. README.md
  21. shell_utils.sh
  22. tapasHelp.sh
  23. Usage.txt
README.md

Android Make Build System

This is the Makefile-based portion of the Android Build System.

For documentation on how to run a build, see Usage.txt

For a list of behavioral changes useful for Android.mk writers see Changes.md

For an outdated reference on Android.mk files, see build-system.html. Our Android.mk files look similar, but are entirely different from the Android.mk files used by the NDK build system. When searching for documentation elsewhere, ensure that it is for the platform build system -- most are not.

This Makefile-based system is in the process of being replaced with Soong, a new build system written in Go. During the transition, all of these makefiles are read by Kati, and generate a ninja file instead of being executed directly. That's combined with a ninja file read by Soong so that the build graph of the two systems can be combined and run as one.