Class Any (3.15.8)

Version 3.15.8

• 3.23.0 (latest)
• 3.15.8

public sealed class Any : object, IMessage<Any>, IEquatable<Any>, IDeepCloneable<Any>, IBufferMessage, IMessage

Any contains 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) ...

Example 4: Pack and unpack a message in Go

foo := &pb.Foo{...} any, err := anypb.New(foo) if err != nil { ... } ... foo := &pb.Foo{} if err := any.UnmarshalTo(foo); err != nil { ... }

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 Any value uses the regular representation of the deserialized, embedded message, with an additional field @type which contains the type URL. Example:

package google.profile; message Person { string first_name = 1; string last_name = 2; }

{ &quot;@type&quot;: "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 value which holds the custom JSON in addition to the @type field. Example (for message [google.protobuf.Duration][]):

{ &quot;@type&quot;: "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Duration", "value": "1.212s" }

Inheritance

Object > Any

Implements

IMessage<Any>, IEquatable<Any>, IDeepCloneable<Any>, IBufferMessage, IMessage

Namespace

Google.Protobuf.WellKnownTypes

Assembly

Google.Protobuf.dll

Constructors

Any()

public Any()

Any(Any)

public Any(Any other)

Parameter
Name	Description
other	Any

Fields

TypeUrlFieldNumber

public const int TypeUrlFieldNumber = null

Field number for the "type_url" field.

Field Value
Type	Description
Int32

ValueFieldNumber

public const int ValueFieldNumber = null

Field number for the "value" field.

Field Value
Type	Description
Int32

Properties

Descriptor

public static MessageDescriptor Descriptor { get; }

Property Value
Type	Description
MessageDescriptor

Parser

public static MessageParser<Any> Parser { get; }

Property Value
Type	Description
MessageParser<Any>

TypeUrl

public string TypeUrl { get; set; }

A URL/resource name that uniquely identifies the type of the serialized protocol buffer message. This string must contain at least one "/" character. 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).

In practice, teams usually precompile into the binary all types that they expect it to use in the context of Any. However, for URLs which use the scheme http, https, or no scheme, one can optionally set up a type server that maps type URLs to message definitions as follows:

• If no scheme is provided, https is assumed.
• 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.)

Note: this functionality is not currently available in the official protobuf release, and it is not used for type URLs beginning with type.googleapis.com.

Schemes other than http, https (or the empty scheme) might be used with implementation specific semantics.

Property Value
Type	Description
String

Value

public ByteString Value { get; set; }

Must be a valid serialized protocol buffer of the above specified type.

Property Value
Type	Description
ByteString

Methods

CalculateSize()

public int CalculateSize()

Returns
Type	Description
Int32

Clone()

public Any Clone()

Returns
Type	Description
Any

Equals(Any)

public bool Equals(Any other)

Parameter
Name	Description
other	Any

Returns
Type	Description
Boolean

Equals(Object)

public override bool Equals(object other)

Parameter
Name	Description
other	Object

Returns
Type	Description
Boolean

GetHashCode()

public override int GetHashCode()

Returns
Type	Description
Int32

GetTypeName(String)

public static string GetTypeName(string typeUrl)

Retrieves the type name for a type URL, matching the FullName of the packed message type.

Parameter
Name	Description
typeUrl	String The URL to extract the type name from

Returns
Type	Description
String	The type name

Remarks

This is always just the last part of the URL, after the final slash. No validation of anything before the trailing slash is performed. If the type URL does not include a slash, an empty string is returned rather than an exception being thrown; this won't match any types, and the calling code is probably in a better position to give a meaningful error.

There is no handling of fragments or queries at the moment.

Is(MessageDescriptor)

public bool Is(MessageDescriptor descriptor)

Returns a bool indictating whether this Any message is of the target message type

Parameter
Name	Description
descriptor	MessageDescriptor The descriptor of the message type

Returns
Type	Description
Boolean	true if the type name matches the descriptor's full name or false otherwise

MergeFrom(CodedInputStream)

public void MergeFrom(CodedInputStream input)

Parameter
Name	Description
input	CodedInputStream

MergeFrom(Any)

public void MergeFrom(Any other)

Parameter
Name	Description
other	Any

Pack(IMessage)

public static Any Pack(IMessage message)

Packs the specified message into an Any message using a type URL prefix of "type.googleapis.com".

Parameter
Name	Description
message	IMessage The message to pack.

Returns
Type	Description
Any	An Any message with the content and type URL of message.

Pack(IMessage, String)

public static Any Pack(IMessage message, string typeUrlPrefix)

Packs the specified message into an Any message using the specified type URL prefix.

Parameters
Name	Description
message	IMessage The message to pack.
typeUrlPrefix	String The prefix for the type URL.

Returns
Type	Description
Any	An Any message with the content and type URL of message.

ToString()

public override string ToString()

Returns
Type	Description
String

TryUnpack<T>(out T)

public bool TryUnpack<T>(out T result)
    where T : IMessage, new()

Attempts to unpack the content of this Any message into the target message type, if it matches the type URL within this Any message.

Parameter
Name	Description
result	T

Returns
Type	Description
Boolean	true if the message was successfully unpacked; false if the type name didn't match

Type Parameter
Name	Description
T	The type of message to attempt to unpack the content into.

Unpack<T>()

public T Unpack<T>()
    where T : IMessage, new()

Unpacks the content of this Any message into the target message type, which must match the type URL within this Any message.

Returns
Type	Description
T	The unpacked message.

Type Parameter
Name	Description
T	The type of message to unpack the content into.

Exceptions
Type	Description
InvalidProtocolBufferException	The target message type doesn't match the type URL in this message

WriteTo(CodedOutputStream)

public void WriteTo(CodedOutputStream output)

Parameter
Name	Description
output	CodedOutputStream

Explicit Interface Implementations

IBufferMessage.InternalMergeFrom(ref ParseContext)

void IBufferMessage.InternalMergeFrom(ref ParseContext input)

Parameter
Name	Description
input	ParseContext

IBufferMessage.InternalWriteTo(ref WriteContext)

void IBufferMessage.InternalWriteTo(ref WriteContext output)

Parameter
Name	Description
output	WriteContext

IMessage.Descriptor

MessageDescriptor IMessage.Descriptor { get; }

Returns
Type	Description
MessageDescriptor