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

[Sameer A. <aj...@cs...>]

> 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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