Actix: returning protobuf - Message not implemented

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I am using actix-web, actix-protobuf and prost-build in a web application.

I have a .proto file defined and I use proto-build to generate corresponding structs, which look similar to the following.

#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, ::prost::Message)]
pub struct Item {
    #[prost(string, tag="1")]
    pub a: ::prost::alloc::string::String,
    // ...
}

#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, ::prost::Message)]
pub struct Items {
    #[prost(message, repeated, tag="1")]
    pub items: ::prost::alloc::vec::Vec<Item>,
}

Now, in web application I'm trying to use actix-protobuf in order to return data as follows.

let data: Items = ...
return HttpResponse::Ok().protobuf(data);

At this point I'm getting an error

the trait `prost::message::Message` is not implemented for `Items`

In the protobuf example (Actix examples - protobuf), they're using Message from prost-derive crate..
(So it looks like there's prost::Message as well as prost::message::Message. )

Any advice would be appreciated.

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What do you have in the [dependencies] section of your Cargo.toml? Sometimes confusing errors like this arise when you inadvertently depend on two incompatible versions of the same crate.

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Interesting point. This is what I have in Cargo.toml.

[dependencies]
actix-protobuf = "0.7.0-beta.4"
actix-web = "4.0.0-rc.2"
bytes = "1.1.0"
prost = "0.9.0"

[build-dependencies]
prost-build = "0.9.0"
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I solved the problem but changing the dependency in Cargo.toml from prost = "0.9.0" to the following:

prost = {version = "0.8.0", default_features = false, features = ["prost-derive"] }

However, the above is using an older version or prost.
The following does NOT work.

prost = {version = "0.9.0", default_features = false, features = ["prost-derive"] }
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Right, because the version of actix-protobuf you're using depends on prost ^0.8.0, so if you don't specify a version that's compatible with that (as 0.9.0 is not) then you will get both versions.

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