[#BloombergLP-ball-RecordAttributes-messageRef] = xref:BloombergLP.adoc[BloombergLP]::xref:BloombergLP/ball.adoc[ball]::xref:BloombergLP/ball/RecordAttributes.adoc[RecordAttributes]::messageRef :relfileprefix: ../../../ :mrdocs: Return a string reference providing non‐modifiable access to the message attribute of this record attributes object. Note that the returned string reference is not null‐terminated, and may contain null ('0') characters. == Synopsis Declared in `<ball_recordattributes.h>` [source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"] ---- xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] messageRef() const; ---- [.small]#Created with https://www.mrdocs.com[MrDocs]#