Use the "has" accessors to determine whether the field was explicitly set.
Java: message.hasFoo()
C++: message.has_foo()
Python: message.HasField("foo") # (I think; check docs)
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Jax <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick reply -- I noticed this in the documentation
> after searching for default instance:
>
> "For embedded messages, the default value is always the "default
> instance" or "prototype" of the message, which has none of its fields
> set." So, does this mean that even the required fields will be set to
> their default values in this prototype object? Or is there some other
> algorithm for the values of the fields within the prototype/default
> instance?
>
> For broader context, I'm trying to figure out how to determine if an
> optional field was actually set in the transmitted protocol buffer or
> whether its default value was filled in automatically.
>
> In reference to the example below, if the title field had been set to
> "Field of Dreams" and then the user set it to an empty string "", I
> would want to actually update the value in my data store to be the
> empty string. However, if the user didn't change the title field at
> all, I will still see an empty string in the title field when I try
> and get at the field through the accessor. I'm looking for a way to
> setup my protocol buffer format so I can distinguish between those two
> cases.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On Jun 4, 9:45 am, Jason Hsueh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 <[email protected]> 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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