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Diffstat (limited to 'java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Descriptors.java')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Descriptors.java b/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Descriptors.java index c5e9a04b..2ee84594 100644 --- a/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Descriptors.java +++ b/java/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/Descriptors.java @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; * its fields and other information about a type. You can get a message * type's descriptor by calling {@code MessageType.getDescriptor()}, or * (given a message object of the type) {@code message.getDescriptorForType()}. + * Furthermore, each message is associated with a {@link FileDescriptor} for + * a relevant {@code .proto} file. You can obtain it by calling + * {@code Descriptor.getFile()}. A {@link FileDescriptor} contains descriptors + * for all the messages defined in that file, and file descriptors for all the + * imported {@code .proto} files. * * Descriptors are built from DescriptorProtos, as defined in * {@code google/protobuf/descriptor.proto}. @@ -55,6 +60,9 @@ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; public final class Descriptors { /** * Describes a {@code .proto} file, including everything defined within. + * That includes, in particular, descriptors for all the messages and + * file descriptors for all other imported {@code .proto} files + * (dependencies). */ public static final class FileDescriptor { /** Convert the descriptor to its protocol message representation. */ |