Protobuf parse error required fields missing cannot determine missing fields for lite message

Shut down the entire protocol buffers library, deleting all static-duration objects allocated by the library or by generated .pb.cc files.

There are two reasons you might want to call this:

• You use a draconian definition of «memory leak» in which you expect every single malloc() to have a corresponding free(), even for objects which live until program exit.
• You are writing a dynamically-loaded library which needs to clean up after itself when the library is unloaded.

It is safe to call this multiple times. However, it is not safe to use any other part of the protocol buffers library after ShutdownProtobufLibrary() has been called. Furthermore this call is not thread safe, user needs to synchronize multiple calls.

Fast path when conditions match (ie.

non-deterministic) uint8* _InternalSerialize(uint8* ptr) const;

Returns the arena, if any, that directly owns this message and its internal memory (Arena::Own is different in that the arena doesn’t directly own the internal memory).

This method is used in proto’s implementation for swapping, moving and setting allocated, for deciding whether the ownership of this message or its internal memory could be changed.

Construct a new instance of the same type.

Ownership is passed to the caller.

Construct a new instance on the arena.

Ownership is passed to the caller if arena is a NULL. Default implementation for backwards compatibility.

Get a pointer that may be equal to this message’s arena, or may not be.

If the value returned by this method is equal to some arena pointer, then this message is on that arena; however, if this message is on some arena, this method may or may not return that arena’s pointer. As a tradeoff, this method may be more efficient than GetArena(). The intent is to allow underlying representations that use e.g. tagged pointers to sometimes store the arena pointer directly, and sometimes in a more indirect way, and allow a fastpath comparison against the arena pointer when it’s easy to obtain.

Clear all fields of the message and set them to their default values.

Clear() avoids freeing memory, assuming that any memory allocated to hold parts of the message will be needed again to hold the next message. If you actually want to free the memory used by a Message, you must delete it.

This is not implemented for Lite messages – it just returns «(cannot
determine missing fields for lite message)».

However, it is implemented for full messages. See message.h.

If |other| is the exact same class as this, calls MergeFrom().

Otherwise, results are undefined (probably crash).

These methods return a human-readable summary of the message.

Note that since the MessageLite interface does not support reflection, there is very little information that these methods can provide. They are shadowed by methods of the same name on the Message interface which provide much more information. The methods here are intended primarily to facilitate code reuse for logic that needs to interoperate with both full and lite protos.

The format of the returned string is subject to change, so please do not assume it will remain stable over time.

Fill the message with a protocol buffer parsed from the given input stream.

Returns false on a read error or if the input is in the wrong format. A successful return does not indicate the entire input is consumed, ensure you call ConsumedEntireMessage() to check that if applicable.

Read a protocol buffer from the given zero-copy input stream.

If successful, the entire input will be consumed.

Parse a protocol buffer from a file descriptor.

If successful, the entire input will be consumed.

Parse a protocol buffer from a C++ istream.

If successful, the entire input will be consumed.

Read a protocol buffer from the given zero-copy input stream, expecting the message to be exactly «size» bytes long.

If successful, exactly this many bytes will have been consumed from the input.

Reads a protocol buffer from the stream and merges it into this Message.

Singular fields read from the what is already in the Message and repeated fields are appended to those already present.

It is the responsibility of the caller to call input->LastTagWas() (for groups) or input->ConsumedEntireMessage() (for non-groups) after this returns to verify that the message’s end was delimited correctly.

ParseFromCodedStream() is implemented as Clear() followed by MergeFromCodedStream().

Write a protocol buffer of this message to the given output.

Returns false on a write error. If the message is missing required fields, this may GOOGLE_CHECK-fail.

Write the message to the given zero-copy output stream.

All required fields must be set.

Serialize the message and store it in the given string.

All required fields must be set.

Serialize the message and store it in the given byte array.

All required fields must be set.

Make a string encoding the message.

Is equivalent to calling SerializeToString() on a string and using that. Returns the empty string if SerializeToString() would have returned an error. Note: If you intend to generate many such strings, you may reduce heap fragmentation by instead re-using the same string object with calls to SerializeToString().

Serialize the message and write it to the given file descriptor.

All required fields must be set.

Serialize the message and write it to the given C++ ostream.

All required fields must be set.

Like SerializeToString(), but appends to the data to the string’s existing contents.

All required fields must be set.

Computes the serialized size of the message.

This recursively calls ByteSizeLong() on all embedded messages.

ByteSizeLong() is generally linear in the number of fields defined for the proto.

Serializes the message without recomputing the size.

The message must not have changed since the last call to ByteSize(), and the value returned by ByteSize must be non-negative. Otherwise the results are undefined.

Like SerializeWithCachedSizes, but writes directly to *target, returning a pointer to the byte immediately after the last byte written.

«target» must point at a byte array of at least ByteSize() bytes. Whether to use deterministic serialization, e.g., maps in sorted order, is determined by CodedOutputStream::IsDefaultSerializationDeterministic().

Returns the result of the last call to ByteSize().

An embedded message’s size is needed both to serialize it (because embedded messages are length-delimited) and to compute the outer message’s size. Caching the size avoids computing it multiple times.

ByteSize() does not automatically use the cached size when available because this would require invalidating it every time the message was modified, which would be too hard and expensive. (E.g. if a deeply-nested sub-message is changed, all of its parents’ cached sizes would need to be invalidated, which is too much work for an otherwise inlined setter method.)

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