Re: [naviserver-devel] Re: [naviserver-commits] naviserver/nsd tclobjv.c,1.7,1.8 tclresp.c,1.4,1.5

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

Am 10.06.2005 um 15:41 schrieb Vlad Seryakov:

> * Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj --
> *
> *      Attempt to get the array of bytes from the Tcl object.  If the
> *      object is not already a ByteArray object, an attempt will be
> *      made to convert it to one.
>
> So, if i call ns_return from Tcl and pass data parameter, it will  
> be always type of String. ByteArrays are created from Tcl by binary  
> command only, other commands work with String types, so i need to  
> tell ns_return to treat data as bytearray. Tcl string
> can contain binary data but it is still String and that check will  
> never work for binary data.
>

I'm afraid you are right. I also have my own (binary-aware) ns_return  
somewhere
in my toolbox but never thought it would be of general interest.

OTOH, the "ns_return -binary" would look nicer but I do not
know if we'd be backwardly-compatible (guess not).

Zoran