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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Overloads for flattened ByteString method args","articleBody":"It would be nice if flattened RPC calls had overloads that accepted standard Java types (i.e. a Java `byte[]` and/or `ByteBuffer`) instead of always requiring a protobuf `ByteString`.  The latter ends up leaking an implementation detail to callers.\r\n\r\nAs an example, in Cloud KMS we currently have:\r\n```\r\nString textRaw = \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!\";\r\nbyte[] textBytes = textRaw.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);\r\nEncryptResponse encryptResp = client.encrypt(keyPath, ByteString.copyFrom(textBytes));\r\n```\r\n\r\nIt would be nice if the final line could be\r\n```\r\nEncryptResponse encryptResp = client.encrypt(keyPath, textBytes);\r\n```\r\nor\r\n```\r\nEncryptResponse encryptResp = client.encrypt(keyPath, ByteBuffer.wrap(textBytes));\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bdhess","@type":"Person","name":"bdhess"},"datePublished":"2018-08-22T16:10:31.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/3590/google-cloud-java/issues/3590"}