On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Tak Wong <[email protected]> wrote:

> We are using protobuf as our messaging, and each message, we loop thru the
> set fields, and do something with it.
>
> We loop it using
>
>     for ( final Map.Entry<Descriptors.FieldDescriptor, Object> entry : 
> msg.getAllFields().entrySet()) {
>             FieldDescriptor field = entry.getKey();
>             Object value = entry.getValue();
>
> Under profiler, we found that this GetAllFields uses most of the time, and
> I did some research, and it looks like there is no other way.
>
> I know that we can use do something like this:
>
>     for ( final FieldDescriptor field : 
> msg.getDescriptorForType().getFields()) {
>         if (!msg.hasField(field)){
>             continue;
>         }
>         Object value = message.getField(field);
>
> But getDescriptorForType returns all the fields rather than just the set
> ones.
>
> Does anyone know of another better performing way to loop thru the fields?
> I believe the problem with getAllFields are creating a new map each time,
> and also reflection. Can i force it to use Trove map inside rather than a
> regular hashmap?
>
Protobuf reflection API is known to be slower than generated API. You can
consider manually checking the fields of a message. That would be much
faster than getAllFields().



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