On Tuesday, 28 March 2023 at 05:05:58 UTC, Alexander Zhirov wrote:
On Tuesday, 28 March 2023 at 00:51:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
auto uuid = UUID(*cast(ubyte[16]*)youruuiddata.ptr);
```d
ubyte[] arr =
cast(ubyte[])value.attributes["objectGUID"][0].dup;
writeln(UUID(cast(ubyte[16])arr.ptr));
```
`Error: cannot cast expression 'cast(ubyte*)arr' of type
'ubyte*' to 'ubyte[16]'`
No, it's not possible to transform. The array is initially
`immutable(char[])`.
the formatting messed up here. Try this code:
```d
auto uuid = UUID(
(cast(const(ubyte)[]) value.attributes["objectGUID"][0])
[0 .. 16]
);
```
no need to `.dup` the values - UUID can work without manipulating
the original data, so we just need to cast the
`immutable(char)[]` to `const(ubyte)[]`
The LDAP library should probably really instead expose `ubyte[]`
instead of `string`
