This is an internal method not intended for external usage.
This method may only be called before the column value has been decoded to a plain Java
object. This means that the DecodeMode that is used for the ResultSet must be
one of DecodeMode#LAZY_PER_ROW and DecodeMode#LAZY_PER_COL, and that the
corresponding ResultSet#getValue(int), ResultSet#getBoolean(int), ... method
may not yet have been called for the column.
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[6.53.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.53.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.52.1](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.52.1/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.51.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.51.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.50.1](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.50.1/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.49.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.49.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.25.1](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.25.1/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.24.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.24.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.23.4](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.23.4/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.22.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.22.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.21.2](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.21.2/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.20.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.20.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.19.1](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.19.1/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.18.0](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.18.0/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.17.4](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.17.4/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet)\n- [6.14.1](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/6.14.1/com.google.cloud.spanner.ProtobufResultSet) \n\n public interface ProtobufResultSet extends ResultSet\n\nInterface for [ResultSet](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.ResultSet)s that can return a protobuf value. \n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[ResultSet](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.ResultSet)\n\nMethods\n-------\n\n### canGetProtobufValue(int columnIndex)\n\n public abstract boolean canGetProtobufValue(int columnIndex)\n\nReturns true if the protobuf value for the given column is still available.\n\n### getProtobufValue(int columnIndex)\n\n public abstract Value getProtobufValue(int columnIndex)\n\n| **Internal Only**: This feature is not stable for application use.\n\nReturns the column value as a protobuf value.\n\nThis is an internal method not intended for external usage.\n\nThis method may only be called before the column value has been decoded to a plain Java\nobject. This means that the [DecodeMode](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.DecodeMode) that is used for the [ResultSet](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.ResultSet) must be\none of [DecodeMode#LAZY_PER_ROW](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.DecodeMode#com_google_cloud_spanner_DecodeMode_LAZY_PER_ROW) and [DecodeMode#LAZY_PER_COL](/java/docs/reference/google-cloud-spanner/latest/com.google.cloud.spanner.DecodeMode#com_google_cloud_spanner_DecodeMode_LAZY_PER_COL), and that the\ncorresponding ResultSet#getValue(int), ResultSet#getBoolean(int), ... method\nmay not yet have been called for the column."]]