Re: [Vala] reading and writing binary data

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

Not sure if helpful, but apparently 
uchar[] stands for byte arrays,
string stands for utf8 string.

I believe a patch to glib-2.0.vapi should be made to include the ->data
member in class ByteArray.

- Yu


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:52 -0800, jezra lickter wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using GNet to read data from a file over http and then write the
> data to a local file. Everything works fine when I am reading a text
> file but when I read some sort of binary file the data gets corrupted.
>
> I believe the problem is caused by Vala converting the data
> that I read into a UTF8 string. One way to fix this problem is to read
> the data as a GLib.ByteArray but I couldn't find a way to iterate over
> ByteArray and extract a single byte. It may also be possible to pull
> the raw string data from the Vala string. Unfortunately I don't know
> how to do this. Any advice regarding reading and writing binary data
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> jezra
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