base_msgs.proto: contains all base messages that can compose the top-level messages

hytech_msgs.proto: contains all messages that will show up on foxglove / be sent individually at any point.

Writing Documentation

PLEASE REFER TO THIS WHEN DOCUMENTING!

Messages, Fields, Services (and their methods), Enums (and their values), Extensions, and Files can be documented. Generally speaking, comments come in 2 forms: leading and trailing.

Leading comments

Leading comments can be used everywhere.

/**
 * This is a leading comment for a message
 */
message SomeMessage {
  // this is another leading comment
  string value = 1;
}

NOTE: File level comments should be leading comments on the syntax directive.

Trailing comments

Fields, Service Methods, Enum Values and Extensions support trailing comments.

enum MyEnum {
  DEFAULT = 0; // the default value
  OTHER   = 1; // the other value
}

Excluding comments

If you want to have some comment in your proto files, but don't want them to be part of the docs, you can simply prefix the comment with @exclude.

Example: include only the comment for the id field

/**
 * @exclude
 * This comment won't be rendered
 */
message ExcludedMessage {
  string id   = 1; // the id of this message.
  string name = 2; // @exclude the name of this message

  /* @exclude the value of this message. */
  int32 value = 3;
}