Re: [hybi] Fragmented text message

Unless I'm mistaken, the fragmentation may occur in the middle of a
multi-byte character sequence.  Your code should be aware of that when
decoding.  My initial implementation buffers all fragments and then decodes
the whole message into a string at once.  I imagine you could probably
inspect the last four bytes of a fragment to determine whether there's a
partial utf-8 character.  If there is, you could buffer just those few bytes
and decode the rest of the fragment.  Then when the next fragment comes in,
prepend those bytes to the new payload and continue. Depending on your use
case and what you're optimizing for, it may be more efficient to just buffer
the whole message and then decode.

Brian

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Kukosa, Tomas <
tomas.kukosa@siemens-enterprise.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a one question regarding fragmented text messages.
>
> If the text message is fragmented must be each fragment a valid UTF-8
> string or only complete defragmented message must be a valid UTF-8 string?
> I.e. may I during receiving decode each fragment by UTF-8 and than join
> strings or do I need to receive all fragments and then decode only
> defragmented message?
>
> Thanks,
>  Tomas
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