Re: [Jsdsi-devel] should transport form be a string by default?

[Sean R. <sra...@ae...>]

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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> >
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