Interesting. May I ask what the plugin is for? Sent from my iPhone
> On 2014/05/28, at 8:45, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > JUnit in Action, Second Edition > Spring Batch in Action > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
