com.google.protobuf
Class ExtensionRegistry

java.lang.Object
  com.google.protobuf.ExtensionRegistry

public final class ExtensionRegistry
extends java.lang.Object

A table of known extensions, searchable by name or field number. When parsing a protocol message that might have extensions, you must provide an ExtensionRegistry in which you have registered any extensions that you want to be able to parse. Otherwise, those extensions will just be treated like unknown fields.

For example, if you had the .proto file:

 option java_class = "MyProto";

 message Foo {
   extensions 1000 to max;
 }

 extend Foo {
   optional int32 bar;
 }
 

Then you might write code like:

 ExtensionRegistry registry = ExtensionRegistry.newInstance();
 registry.add(MyProto.bar);
 MyProto.Foo message = MyProto.Foo.parseFrom(input, registry);
 

Background:

You might wonder why this is necessary. Two alternatives might come to mind. First, you might imagine a system where generated extensions are automatically registered when their containing classes are loaded. This is a popular technique, but is bad design; among other things, it creates a situation where behavior can change depending on what classes happen to be loaded. It also introduces a security vulnerability, because an unprivileged class could cause its code to be called unexpectedly from a privileged class by registering itself as an extension of the right type.

Another option you might consider is lazy parsing: do not parse an extension until it is first requested, at which point the caller must provide a type to use. This introduces a different set of problems. First, it would require a mutex lock any time an extension was accessed, which would be slow. Second, corrupt data would not be detected until first access, at which point it would be much harder to deal with it. Third, it could violate the expectation that message objects are immutable, since the type provided could be any arbitrary message class. An unpriviledged user could take advantage of this to inject a mutable object into a message belonging to priviledged code and create mischief.

Author:

[email protected] Kenton Varda

Nested Class Summary

static class

ExtensionRegistry.ExtensionInfo A (Descriptor, Message) pair, returned by lookup methods.

Method Summary

void	add(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor type) Add a non-message-type extension to the registry by descriptor.
void	add(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor type, Message defaultInstance) Add a message-type extension to the registry by descriptor.
void	add(GeneratedMessage.GeneratedExtension<?,?> extension) Add an extension from a generated file to the registry.
ExtensionRegistry.ExtensionInfo	findExtensionByName(java.lang.String fullName) Find an extension by fully-qualified field name, in the proto namespace.
ExtensionRegistry.ExtensionInfo	findExtensionByNumber(Descriptors.Descriptor containingType, int fieldNumber) Find an extension by containing type and field number.
static ExtensionRegistry	getEmptyRegistry() Get the unmodifiable singleton empty instance.
ExtensionRegistry	getUnmodifiable() Returns an unmodifiable view of the registry.
static ExtensionRegistry	newInstance() Construct a new, empty instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

newInstance

public static ExtensionRegistry newInstance()

Construct a new, empty instance.

getEmptyRegistry

public static ExtensionRegistry getEmptyRegistry()

Get the unmodifiable singleton empty instance.

getUnmodifiable

public ExtensionRegistry getUnmodifiable()

Returns an unmodifiable view of the registry.

findExtensionByName

public ExtensionRegistry.ExtensionInfo findExtensionByName(java.lang.String fullName)

Find an extension by fully-qualified field name, in the proto namespace. I.e. result.descriptor.fullName() will match fullName if a match is found.

Returns:

Information about the extension if found, or null otherwise.

findExtensionByNumber

public ExtensionRegistry.ExtensionInfo findExtensionByNumber(Descriptors.Descriptor containingType,
                                                             int fieldNumber)

Find an extension by containing type and field number.

Returns:

Information about the extension if found, or null otherwise.

add

public void add(GeneratedMessage.GeneratedExtension<?,?> extension)

Add an extension from a generated file to the registry.

add

public void add(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor type)

Add a non-message-type extension to the registry by descriptor.

add

public void add(Descriptors.FieldDescriptor type,
                Message defaultInstance)

Add a message-type extension to the registry by descriptor.