ProtocolStringList (Protocol Buffers [Core] 3.21.10 API)

All Superinterfaces:

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

All Known Subinterfaces:

LazyStringList

All Known Implementing Classes:

LazyStringArrayList, UnmodifiableLazyStringList
```
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.

- Method Summary
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  List<ByteString> asByteStringList()
  Returns a view of the data as a list of ByteStrings.
  - Methods inherited from interface java.util.Collection
    parallelStream, removeIf, stream, toArray
  - Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable
    forEach
  - 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, replaceAll, retainAll, set, size, sort, spliterator, subList, toArray, toArray

- Method Detail
  - asByteStringList
```
List<ByteString> asByteStringList()
```
    Returns a view of the data as a list of ByteStrings.