Re: [Cbor] Question about CBOR padding
Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 07 November 2018 05:24 UTC
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When we did CBOR, we didn’t have a very good use case for padding. I’m not sure we have one now; but let me mention that we have some free codes that could be set aside for padding. So if the WG wants to define a version of CBOR that supports padding, I have a proposal to pull out of the drawer. In this particular case, it sounds like a stop code (“no more data following”) would also do it. Grüße, Carsten > On Nov 7, 2018, at 11:42, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > > Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> wrote: >> CBOR has no need for padding and it does not have any byte sequence that can >> fill in for padding. > > True. > > You could pad with a sized or series of indefinite length array that ended > with no items. I think it's best to just read the first "element", and > ignore the rest though. > > -- > Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- > > > > >
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