TypeError: Descriptors should not be created directly, but only retrieved from their parent.

[auyer]

When trying to convert some of the pre-trained models provided by caffe, I received this error:

 $ python ../../caffe-tensorflow/convert.py hybridCNN_deploy.prototxt --caffemodel hybridCNN_iter_700000.caffemodel --data-output-path ../ --code-output-path ../
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "../../caffe-tensorflow/convert.py", line 60, in <module>
    main()
  File "../../caffe-tensorflow/convert.py", line 56, in main
    args.phase)
  File "../../caffe-tensorflow/convert.py", line 27, in convert
    transformer = TensorFlowTransformer(def_path, caffemodel_path, phase=phase)
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 221, in __init__
    self.load(def_path, data_path, phase)
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/tensorflow/transformer.py", line 227, in load
    graph = GraphBuilder(def_path, phase).build()
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 140, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/graph.py", line 144, in load
    self.params = get_caffe_resolver().NetParameter()
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/caffe/resolver.py", line 32, in get_caffe_resolver
    SHARED_CAFFE_RESOLVER = CaffeResolver()
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/caffe/resolver.py", line 7, in __init__
    self.import_caffe()
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/caffe/resolver.py", line 17, in import_caffe
    from . import caffepb
  File "/Users/auyer/python/caffe-tensorflow/kaffe/caffe/caffepb.py", line 28, in <module>
    type=None),
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.15_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/google/protobuf/descriptor.py", line 693, in __new__
    _message.Message._CheckCalledFromGeneratedFile()
TypeError: Descriptors should not be created directly, but only retrieved from their parent.

The same error appeared when trying to convert the "googlenet_places205" network.

$ python --version
Python 2.7.15

$ pip list
...
tensorboard                   1.8.0
tensorflow                    1.8.0
tensorflow-serving-api        1.8.0

[SANTO-P]

yeah..same issue

[edkair]

Solution is #114