Make emptyList public and mark the public EMPTY field as deprecated.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 495154966
2 years ago · c658e27529
parent bfed218c71
commit c658e27529
1 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions
--- a/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/LazyStringArrayList.java
+++ b/java/core/src/main/java/com/google/protobuf/LazyStringArrayList.java
@ -67,12 +67,17 @@ public class LazyStringArrayList extends AbstractProtobufList<String>
    EMPTY_LIST.makeImmutable();
  }

-  static LazyStringArrayList emptyList() {
+  /** Returns an empty immutable {@code LazyStringArrayList} instance */
+  public static LazyStringArrayList emptyList() {
    return EMPTY_LIST;
  }

-  // For compatibility with older runtimes.
-  public static final LazyStringList EMPTY = EMPTY_LIST;
+  /**
+   * For compatibility with older runtimes.
+   *
+   * @deprecated use {@link emptyList()} instead
+   */
+  @Deprecated public static final LazyStringList EMPTY = EMPTY_LIST;

  private final List<Object> list;