Examining a protobuf message - how to get field values by name?

Question

I seem unable to find a way to verify the value of a field inside a protobuf message without explicitly invoking its getter.

I see examples around that make usage of

Answer 1

I am not sure you are looking for Descriptors#findFieldByName(name). You can try with followings:

FieldDescriptor fieldDescriptor = message.getDescriptorForType().findFieldByName("fieldXyz");
Object value = message.getField(fieldDescriptor);