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publicfinalclassWireFormat
This class is used internally by the Protocol Buffer library and generated message
implementations. It is public only because those generated messages do not reside in theprotobufpackage. Others should not use this class directly.
This class contains constants and helper functions useful for dealing with the Protocol Buffer
wire format.
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