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Re: [ogpx] type-system : binary elements in JSON serializations

Meadhbh Hamrick <ohmeadhbh@gmail.com> Mon, 29 March 2010 20:13 UTC

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okay. so we could say that a valid BASE64 encoding would be converted
into a string of octets, but an invalid BASE64 encoding would return
the default binary.


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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Hurliman, John
<john.hurliman@intel.com> wrote:
> I think the conversion should go both ways assuming the string is base64. A string of "hello world" would produce zero binary octets, but "aGVsbG8gd29ybGQ=" would produce 11 binary octets.
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Meadhbh Hamrick [mailto:ohmeadhbh@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:24 AM
>> To: David W Levine
>> Cc: Hurliman, John; ogpx; ogpx-bounces@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [ogpx] type-system : binary elements in JSON
>> serializations
>>
>> coolies. i'll implement it and open a trac ticket for it.
>>
>> also... do we want to have a string to binary conversion?
>> --
>> meadhbh hamrick * it's pronounced "maeve"
>> @OhMeadhbh * http://meadhbh.org/ * OhMeadhbh@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, David W Levine <dwl@us.ibm.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > ogpx-bounces@ietf.org wrote on 03/29/2010 02:05:48 PM:
>> >
>> >> [image removed]
>> >>
>> >> Re: [ogpx] type-system : binary elements in JSON serializations
>> >>
>> >> Hurliman, John
>> >>
>> >> to:
>> >>
>> >> Meadhbh Hamrick, ogpx
>> >>
>> >> 03/29/2010 02:06 PM
>> >>
>> >> Sent by:
>> >>
>> >> ogpx-bounces@ietf.org
>> >>
>> >> I think supporting conversion to and from string and binary at the
>> >> LLSD level is a good idea, and I don't see any downsides to this
>> approach.
>> >>
>> >> John
>> >>
>> > +1
>> >
>

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