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TIBCO Rendezvous® 8.8.0

# Message

Class

## Superclasses

    System.Object
      Message

## Visual Basic

    Public Class Message

## C#

    public class Message

## Purpose

Represent Rendezvous messages.

## Remarks

This class has no `destroy()` method. Instead, the garbage collector reclaims storage automatically. Nonetheless it is possible to explicitly manage native message storage; see Message.Dispose().

Method | Description | Page
## Message Life Cycle and Properties
Message | Create a message object. | Message
Message.Dispose() | Release native storage associated with the message. | Message.Dispose()
## Fields
Message.AddField | Add a field to a message. | Message.AddField
Message.AddStringAsXml | Add a string to a message as the value of an XML field (without parsing it to verify that it specifies a well-formed XML document). | Message.AddStringAsXml
Message.Expand | Enlarge a message by allocating additional storage. | Message.Expand
Message.GetField | Get a specified field from a message. | Message.GetField
Message.GetFieldByIndex | Get a field from a message by an index. | Message.GetFieldByIndex
Message.GetFieldInstance | Get a specific instance of a field from a message. | Message.GetFieldInstance
Message.GetXmlAsString ``Message.GetXmlAsStringByIndex()`` | Get an XML field from a message, and return its value as a string (without parsing to verify that it specifies a well-formed XML document). | Message.GetXmlAsString
Message.RemoveField | Remove a field from a message. | Message.RemoveField
Message.RemoveFieldInstance | Remove a specified instance of a field from a message. | Message.RemoveFieldInstance
Message.Reset | Clear a message, preparing it for re-use. | Message.Reset
Message.ToByteArray | Extract the data from a message as a byte sequence. | Message.ToByteArray
Message.UpdateField | Update a field within a message. | Message.UpdateField
## Message Dispatched
Message.GetSource | Extract the source associated with a (dispatched) message object. | Message.GetSource
## Custom Datatypes (Static Method)
Message.RegisterCustomDataType | Register a custom datatype for automatic encoding and decoding. | Message.RegisterCustomDataType

Member | Description |
## Public Instance Properties
``FieldCount`` | ``uint`` The number of fields in the message. This count includes only the immediate fields of the message; it does not include fields within recursive submessages. | Get
``FieldCountAsInt`` | ``int`` Identical to FieldCount, except its type is `int`. (`for` loops in Visual Basic .NET require `int` parameters.) | Get
``ReplySubject`` | ``string`` The reply subject of the message. For more information, see Subjects. | Get Set
``SendSubject`` | ``string`` The destination subject of the message. When this property is null, the message is unsendable. For more information, see Subjects. | Get Set
``Size`` | ``uint`` The size of the message (in bytes). | Get
## Public Static Fields
``MinimumCustomDataTypeID````MaximumCustomDataTypeID`` | ``byte`` Type designators of custom datatypes must be in the inclusive range defined by these two constants—that is:
    [MinimumCustomDataTypeIDMaximumCustomDataTypeID, MinimumCustomDataTypeIDMaximumCustomDataTypeID]

## Subjects

Rendezvous routing daemons modify message subjects and reply subjects to enable transparent point-to-point communication across network boundaries. This modification does not apply to subject names stored in within message data fields; we discourage storing point-to-point subject names in data fields.

Subjects and reply subjects are parts of a message’s address information—they are not part of the message itself; see also Supplementary Information for Messages in TIBCO Rendezvous Concepts.

## See Also

Strings and Character Encodings

MessageField

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