path: root/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs

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// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
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#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using Google.Protobuf.Descriptors;
using Google.Protobuf.FieldAccess;

namespace Google.Protobuf
{

    // TODO(jonskeet): Do we want a "weak" version of IReflectedMessage?
    public interface IReflectedMessage<T> where T : IMessage<T>
    {
        FieldAccessorTable<T> Fields { get; }
    }

    public interface IMessage
    {
        void MergeFrom(CodedInputStream input);
        void WriteTo(CodedOutputStream output);
        int CalculateSize();
    }

    public interface IMessage<T> : IMessage where T : IMessage<T>
    {
        void MergeFrom(T message);
    }
}