public sealed class PropertyReference : IMessage<PropertyReference>, IEquatable<PropertyReference>, IDeepCloneable<PropertyReference>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Google Cloud Datastore v1 API class PropertyReference.
A reference to a property relative to the kind expressions.
MUST be a dot-delimited (.) string of segments, where each segment
conforms to [entity property name][google.datastore.v1.Entity.properties]
limitations.
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