Implement requested changes for IMessage<T>

1) New line at end of file
2) Make IMessage<T> itself extend IEquatable<T> and IDeepCloneable<T>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs b/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs
index 32dfcaff..5d662cfd 100644
--- a/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs
+++ b/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 

 #endregion

 

+using System;

 using Google.Protobuf.FieldAccess;

 

 namespace Google.Protobuf

@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ namespace Google.Protobuf
     /// the implementation class.

     /// </summary>

     /// <typeparam name="T">The message type.</typeparam>

-    public interface IMessage<T> : IMessage where T : IMessage<T>

+    public interface IMessage<T> : IMessage, IEquatable<T>, IDeepCloneable<T> where T : IMessage<T>

     {

         /// <summary>

         /// Merges the given message into this one.

@@ -98,8 +99,8 @@ namespace Google.Protobuf
     /// Generic interface for a deeply cloneable type.

     /// <summary>

     /// <remarks>

-    /// In practice, all generated messages implement this interface.

-    /// However, due to the type constraint on <c>T</c> in <see cref="IMessage{T}"/>,

+    /// All generated messages implement this interface, but so do some non-message types.

+    /// Additionally, due to the type constraint on <c>T</c> in <see cref="IMessage{T}"/>,

     /// it is simpler to keep this as a separate interface.

     /// </remarks>

     /// <typeparam name="T">The type itself, returned by the <see cref="Clone"/> method.</typeparam>

@@ -111,4 +112,4 @@ namespace Google.Protobuf
         /// <returns>A deep clone of this object.</returns>

         T Clone();

     }

-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}