No, protobuf accessors never return null. For message fields, you get the
default instance of the message type.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Jax <jax...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This should be pretty straightforward, but I couldn't find it in any
> of the documentation on default values.
>
> A slight change from some example code in the google documentation:
>
> message SearchResponse {
> optional Result result = 1;
> }
>
> message Result {
> required string url = 1;
> optional string title = 2;
> repeated string snippets = 3;
> }
>
> My question is, what is the default value for the Result in the above
> code? Does it get set to null since (I presume) it will be compiled
> into an object when the protocol buffer gets compiled into Java or C#?
> Or do default values work differently for a nested message than for
> base types?
>
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