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ReferenceType

Describes what the field reference contains. More types can be added over time. Implementations should handle unknown reference types as gracefully as possible.

Enums
`PATH`	Reference contains a GFS path or a local path.
`BLOB_REF`	Reference points to a blobstore object. This could be either a v1 blobRef or a v2 blobstore2Info. Clients should check blobstore2Info first, since v1 is being deprecated.
`INLINE`	Data is included into this proto buffer
`BIGSTORE_REF`	Reference points to a bigstore object
`COSMO_BINARY_REFERENCE`	Indicates the data is stored in cosmoBinaryReference.

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