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

"Hurliman, John" <john.hurliman@intel.com> Mon, 29 March 2010 19:19 UTC

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From: "Hurliman, John" <john.hurliman@intel.com>
To: Meadhbh Hamrick <ohmeadhbh@gmail.com>, David W Levine <dwl@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:19:20 -0600
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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
> >