lazy property

@TagNumber.new(5) bool get lazy

Should this field be parsed lazily? Lazy applies only to message-type fields. It means that when the outer message is initially parsed, the inner message's contents will not be parsed but instead stored in encoded form. The inner message will actually be parsed when it is first accessed.

This is only a hint. Implementations are free to choose whether to use eager or lazy parsing regardless of the value of this option. However, setting this option true suggests that the protocol author believes that using lazy parsing on this field is worth the additional bookkeeping overhead typically needed to implement it.

This option does not affect the public interface of any generated code; all method signatures remain the same. Furthermore, thread-safety of the interface is not affected by this option; const methods remain safe to call from multiple threads concurrently, while non-const methods continue to require exclusive access.

Note that lazy message fields are still eagerly verified to check ill-formed wireformat or missing required fields. Calling IsInitialized() on the outer message would fail if the inner message has missing required fields. Failed verification would result in parsing failure (except when uninitialized messages are acceptable).

Implementation

@$pb.TagNumber(5)
$core.bool get lazy => $_getBF(3);

@TagNumber.new(5) set lazy (bool value)

Implementation

@$pb.TagNumber(5)
set lazy($core.bool value) => $_setBool(3, value);