Any
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A URL/resource name whose content describes the type of the
serialized protocol buffer message.
For URLs which use the scheme http, https, or no scheme, the
following restrictions and interpretations apply:
* If no scheme is provided, https is assumed.
* The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully
qualified name of the type (as in path/google.protobuf.Duration).
The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is
not accepted).
* An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][]
value in binary format, or produce an error.
* Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the
URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any
lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved
on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage
breaking changes.)
Schemes other than http, https (or the empty scheme) might be
used with implementation specific semantics.
Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.
A URL/resource name whose content describes the type of the serialized protocol buffer message.
A URL/resource name whose content describes the type of the
serialized protocol buffer message.
For URLs which use the scheme http, https, or no scheme, the
following restrictions and interpretations apply:
* If no scheme is provided, https is assumed.
* The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully
qualified name of the type (as in path/google.protobuf.Duration).
The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is
not accepted).
* An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][]
value in binary format, or produce an error.
* Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the
URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any
lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved
on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage
breaking changes.)
Schemes other than http, https (or the empty scheme) might be
used with implementation specific semantics.
Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.
Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.
Anycontains an arbitrary serialized protocol buffer message along with a URL that describes the type of the serialized message.Protobuf library provides support to pack/unpack Any values in the form of utility functions or additional generated methods of the Any type.
Example 1: Pack and unpack a message in C++.
Foo foo = ...; Any any; any.PackFrom(foo); ... if (any.UnpackTo(&foo)) { ... }
Example 2: Pack and unpack a message in Java.
Foo foo = ...; Any any = Any.pack(foo); ... if (any.is(Foo.class)) { foo = any.unpack(Foo.class); }
Example 3: Pack and unpack a message in Python.
foo = Foo(...) any = Any() any.Pack(foo) ... if any.Is(Foo.DESCRIPTOR): any.Unpack(foo) ...
The pack methods provided by protobuf library will by default use 'type.googleapis.com/full.type.name' as the type URL and the unpack methods only use the fully qualified type name after the last '/' in the type URL, for example "foo.bar.com/x/y.z" will yield type name "y.z".
JSON
The JSON representation of an
Anyvalue uses the regular representation of the deserialized, embedded message, with an additional field@typewhich contains the type URL. Example:package google.profile; message Person { string first_name = 1; string last_name = 2; }
{ "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.profile.Person", "firstName": <string>, "lastName": <string> }
If the embedded message type is well-known and has a custom JSON representation, that representation will be embedded adding a field
valuewhich holds the custom JSON in addition to the@typefield. Example (for message [google.protobuf.Duration][]):{ "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Duration", "value": "1.212s" }
A URL/resource name whose content describes the type of the serialized protocol buffer message. For URLs which use the scheme
http,https, or no scheme, the following restrictions and interpretations apply: * If no scheme is provided,httpsis assumed. * The last segment of the URL's path must represent the fully qualified name of the type (as inpath/google.protobuf.Duration). The name should be in a canonical form (e.g., leading "." is not accepted). * An HTTP GET on the URL must yield a [google.protobuf.Type][] value in binary format, or produce an error. * Applications are allowed to cache lookup results based on the URL, or have them precompiled into a binary to avoid any lookup. Therefore, binary compatibility needs to be preserved on changes to types. (Use versioned type names to manage breaking changes.) Schemes other thanhttp,https(or the empty scheme) might be used with implementation specific semantics.Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.