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Return the message attribute of this record attributes object. Note that this method will return a truncated message if it contains embedded null ('0') characters; see `messageRef` for an alternative to this method. *Warning:* This method is _not_ const thread‐safe, and cannot be safely called concurrently. It may modify the stream buffer returned by `messageStreamBuf`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_recordattributes.h>`

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----
char const*
message() const;
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use `messageRef` instead.


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