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[Jsdsi-users] should transport form be a string by default?

From: Sameer A. <aj...@cs...> - 2004-03-15 13:19:02

The purpose of transport form is to provide a concise, 7-bit clean
encoding of a canonical S-expression.  But most JSDSI methods that read or
write transport form use a byte array or OutputStream instead of a String
or Writer.  Should we change transport form methods to use Strings and
Writers?  Note that one can always use Sexp.decodeString() and
OutputStreamWriter to bridge between the two forms.

Sameer

> Just one change:
>
>>     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>>     this.toSexp().writeTransport(baos);
>>     return baos.toString();
>
> This call to toString() uses the platform's default encoding, but SPKI
> requires 8859_1.  Perhaps use Sexp.decodeString(baos.toByteArray());
>
> Sameer
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[Jsdsi-users] Re: [Jsdsi-devel] should transport form be a string by default?

From: Sean R. <sra...@ae...> - 2004-03-15 16:48:03

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 13:18, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
> The purpose of transport form is to provide a concise, 7-bit clean
> encoding of a canonical S-expression.  But most JSDSI methods that read or
> write transport form use a byte array or OutputStream instead of a String
> or Writer.  Should we change transport form methods to use Strings and
> Writers?  Note that one can always use Sexp.decodeString() and
> OutputStreamWriter to bridge between the two forms.
> 
My preference is to stick as we are, make sure the documentation
(javadoc) highlights the issue and informs developers of how to convert.


> Sameer
> 
> > Just one change:
> >
> >>     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> >>     this.toSexp().writeTransport(baos);
> >>     return baos.toString();
> >
> > This call to toString() uses the platform's default encoding, but SPKI
> > requires 8859_1.  Perhaps use Sexp.decodeString(baos.toByteArray());
> >
> > Sameer
> >
> >
> >
> >
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[Jsdsi-users] Re: [Jsdsi-devel] should transport form be a string by default?

From: Sameer A. <aj...@cs...> - 2004-03-15 16:53:57

> My preference is to stick as we are, make sure the documentation
> (javadoc) highlights the issue and informs developers of how to convert.

This is probably the best plan, as it also avoid breaking existing apps :)

Sameer

> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 13:18, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
>> The purpose of transport form is to provide a concise, 7-bit clean
>> encoding of a canonical S-expression.  But most JSDSI methods that
>> read or write transport form use a byte array or OutputStream instead
>> of a String or Writer.  Should we change transport form methods to use
>> Strings and Writers?  Note that one can always use Sexp.decodeString()
>> and
>> OutputStreamWriter to bridge between the two forms.
>>
>
>
>> Sameer
>>
>> > Just one change:
>> >
>> >>     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>> this.toSexp().writeTransport(baos);
>> >>     return baos.toString();
>> >
>> > This call to toString() uses the platform's default encoding, but
>> SPKI requires 8859_1.  Perhaps use
>> Sexp.decodeString(baos.toByteArray());
>> >
>> > Sameer
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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[Jsdsi-users] Re: [Jsdsi-devel] should transport form be a string by default?

From: Sean R. <sra...@ae...> - 2004-03-15 17:32:54

Just to let you all know - I've committed the convenience methods (with
Sexp.decodeString(...) to use 8859_1.

Sean

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:53, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
> > My preference is to stick as we are, make sure the documentation
> > (javadoc) highlights the issue and informs developers of how to convert.
> 
> This is probably the best plan, as it also avoid breaking existing apps :)
> 
> Sameer
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 13:18, Sameer Ajmani wrote:
> >> The purpose of transport form is to provide a concise, 7-bit clean
> >> encoding of a canonical S-expression.  But most JSDSI methods that
> >> read or write transport form use a byte array or OutputStream instead
> >> of a String or Writer.  Should we change transport form methods to use
> >> Strings and Writers?  Note that one can always use Sexp.decodeString()
> >> and
> >> OutputStreamWriter to bridge between the two forms.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Sameer
> >>
> >> > Just one change:
> >> >
> >> >>     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> >> this.toSexp().writeTransport(baos);
> >> >>     return baos.toString();
> >> >
> >> > This call to toString() uses the platform's default encoding, but
> >> SPKI requires 8859_1.  Perhaps use
> >> Sexp.decodeString(baos.toByteArray());
> >> >
> >> > Sameer
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> 
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