chore: add a logged warning for merged proto registry when creating baseapp (#24450)

baseapp/baseapp.go

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import (
 	sdk "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types"
 	sdkerrors "github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/errors"
 	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/mempool"
+	"github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/types/msgservice"
 )
 
 type (
@@ -251,6 +252,18 @@ func NewBaseApp(
 	// Unless SetInterfaceRegistry is called with an interface registry with proper address codecs baseapp will panic.
 	app.cdc = codec.NewProtoCodec(codectypes.NewInterfaceRegistry())
 
+	protoFiles, err := proto.MergedRegistry()
+	if err != nil {
+		logger.Warn("error creating merged proto registry", "error", err)
+	} else {
+		err = msgservice.ValidateProtoAnnotations(protoFiles)
+		if err != nil {
+			// Once we switch to using protoreflect-based antehandlers, we might
+			// want to panic here instead of logging a warning.
+			logger.Warn("error validating merged proto registry annotations", "error", err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	return app
 }