src/google/protobuf/struct.proto

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syntax = "proto3";

package google.protobuf;

option cc_enable_arenas = true;
option go_package = "google.golang.org/protobuf/types/known/structpb";
option java_package = "com.google.protobuf";
option java_outer_classname = "StructProto";
option java_multiple_files = true;
option objc_class_prefix = "GPB";
option csharp_namespace = "Google.Protobuf.WellKnownTypes";

// Represents a JSON object.
//
// An unordered key-value map, intending to perfectly capture the semantics of a
// JSON object. This enables parsing any arbitrary JSON payload as a message
// field in ProtoJSON format.
//
// This follows RFC 8259 guidelines for interoperable JSON: notably this type
// cannot represent large Int64 values or `NaN`/`Infinity` numbers,
// since the JSON format generally does not support those values in its number
// type.
//
// If you do not intend to parse arbitrary JSON into your message, a custom
// typed message should be preferred instead of using this type.
message Struct {
  // Unordered map of dynamically typed values.
  map<string, Value> fields = 1;
}

// Represents a JSON value.
//
// `Value` represents a dynamically typed value which can be either
// null, a number, a string, a boolean, a recursive struct value, or a
// list of values. A producer of value is expected to set one of these
// variants. Absence of any variant is an invalid state.
message Value {
  // The kind of value.
  oneof kind {
    // Represents a JSON `null`.
    NullValue null_value = 1;

    // Represents a JSON number. Must not be `NaN`, `Infinity` or
    // `-Infinity`, since those are not supported in JSON. This also cannot
    // represent large Int64 values, since JSON format generally does not
    // support them in its number type.
    double number_value = 2;

    // Represents a JSON string.
    string string_value = 3;

    // Represents a JSON boolean (`true` or `false` literal in JSON).
    bool bool_value = 4;

    // Represents a JSON object.
    Struct struct_value = 5;

    // Represents a JSON array.
    ListValue list_value = 6;
  }
}

// Represents a JSON `null`.
//
// `NullValue` is a sentinel, using an enum with only one value to represent
// the null value for the `Value` type union.
//
// A field of type `NullValue` with any value other than `0` is considered
// invalid. Most ProtoJSON serializers will emit a `Value` with a `null_value`
// set as a JSON `null` regardless of the integer value, and so will round trip
// to a `0` value.
enum NullValue {
  // Null value.
  NULL_VALUE = 0;
}

// Represents a JSON array.
message ListValue {
  // Repeated field of dynamically typed values.
  repeated Value values = 1;
}