I would like a Plugin I am currently writing to take a byte[] as the type
of a PluginAttribute.

In the untyped version of our system, I would type the PluginAttribute as a
String and call getBytes() with an encoding that makes sense.

How can we do this in our new type system?

I could see the XML looking like

attr="Value" where the type converters convert using String#getBytes() but
with which encoding? UTF8? The platform default.

I also see:

attr="Base64:0123...ABC"

as being quite useful.

Thoughts?

Gary

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