1# Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format 
    2# Copyright 2008 Google Inc.  All rights reserved. 
    3# 
    4# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 
    5# license that can be found in the LICENSE file or at 
    6# https://developers.google.com/open-source/licenses/bsd 
    7 
    8# This code is meant to work on Python 2.4 and above only. 
    9 
    10"""Contains a metaclass and helper functions used to create 
    11protocol message classes from Descriptor objects at runtime. 
    12 
    13Recall that a metaclass is the "type" of a class. 
    14(A class is to a metaclass what an instance is to a class.) 
    15 
    16In this case, we use the GeneratedProtocolMessageType metaclass 
    17to inject all the useful functionality into the classes 
    18output by the protocol compiler at compile-time. 
    19 
    20The upshot of all this is that the real implementation 
    21details for ALL pure-Python protocol buffers are *here in 
    22this file*. 
    23""" 
    24 
    25__author__ = 'robinson@google.com (Will Robinson)' 
    26 
    27import warnings 
    28 
    29from google.protobuf import message_factory 
    30from google.protobuf import symbol_database 
    31 
    32# The type of all Message classes. 
    33# Part of the public interface, but normally only used by message factories. 
    34GeneratedProtocolMessageType = message_factory._GENERATED_PROTOCOL_MESSAGE_TYPE 
    35 
    36MESSAGE_CLASS_CACHE = {}