Package com.google.protobuf

Class Descriptors

java.lang.Object

com.google.protobuf.Descriptors

public final class Descriptors
extends Object

Contains a collection of classes which describe protocol message types. Every message type has a Descriptors.Descriptor, which lists all its fields and other information about a type. You can get a message type's descriptor by calling MessageType.getDescriptor(), or (given a message object of the type) message.getDescriptorForType(). Furthermore, each message is associated with a Descriptors.FileDescriptor for a relevant .proto file. You can obtain it by calling Descriptor.getFile(). A Descriptors.FileDescriptor contains descriptors for all the messages defined in that file, and file descriptors for all the imported .proto files. Descriptors are built from DescriptorProtos, as defined in google/protobuf/descriptor.proto.

Author:

kenton@google.com Kenton Varda

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static final class	Descriptors.Descriptor	Describes a message type.
static class	Descriptors.DescriptorValidationException	Thrown when building descriptors fails because the source DescriptorProtos are not valid.
static final class	Descriptors.EnumDescriptor	Describes an enum type.
static final class	Descriptors.EnumValueDescriptor	Describes one value within an enum type.
static final class	Descriptors.FieldDescriptor	Describes a field of a message type.
static final class	Descriptors.FileDescriptor	Describes a .proto file, including everything defined within.
static class	Descriptors.GenericDescriptor	All descriptors implement this to make it easier to implement tools like DescriptorPool.
static final class	Descriptors.MethodDescriptor	Describes one method within a service type.
static final class	Descriptors.OneofDescriptor	Describes an oneof of a message type.
static final class	Descriptors.ServiceDescriptor	Describes a service type.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Descriptors()

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

Descriptors

public Descriptors()