com.google.protobuf

Interface ProtocolStringList

All Superinterfaces:

Collection<String>, Iterable<String>, List<String>

All Known Subinterfaces:

LazyStringList

All Known Implementing Classes:

LazyStringArrayList

public interface ProtocolStringList
extends List<String>

An interface extending List<String> used for repeated string fields to provide optional access to the data as a list of ByteStrings. The underlying implementation stores values as either ByteStrings or Strings (see LazyStringArrayList) depending on how the value was initialized or last read, and it is often more efficient to deal with lists of ByteStrings when handling protos that have been deserialized from bytes.

Note: most users will not need to use this interface directly. If you don't call asByteStringList(), simply use List<String> instead.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<ByteString>	asByteStringList() Returns a view of the data as a list of ByteStrings.

Methods inherited from interface java.util.List

add, add, addAll, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, get, hashCode, indexOf, isEmpty, iterator, lastIndexOf, listIterator, listIterator, remove, remove, removeAll, retainAll, set, size, subList, toArray, toArray

Method Detail

asByteStringList

List<ByteString> asByteStringList()

Returns a view of the data as a list of ByteStrings.