public com.google.protobuf.ByteString getForwardingRuleBytes() {
      java.lang.Object ref = forwardingRule_;
      if (ref instanceof String) {
        com.google.protobuf.ByteString b =
            com.google.protobuf.ByteString.copyFromUtf8((java.lang.String) ref);
        forwardingRule_ = b;
        return b;
      } else {
        return (com.google.protobuf.ByteString) ref;
      }
    }
<pre>
Output only. The URI of the consumer side forwarding rule.
Format:
projects/{project}/regions/{region}/forwardingRules/{forwarding_rule}
</pre>

<code>
string forwarding_rule = 3 [(.google.api.field_behavior) = OUTPUT_ONLY, (.google.api.resource_reference) = { ... }
</code>

@return The bytes for forwardingRule.
java-valkey/proto-google-cloud-valkey-v1beta/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/memorystore/v1beta/PscAutoConnection.java