Jira (PUP-5831) Add a Binary type and runtime object

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg created an issue   Puppet / PUP-5831 Add a Binary type and runtime object Issue Type: New Feature Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2016/02/07 7:53 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Henrik Lindberg We currently do not have a way of handling binary content in Puppet. Instead we use String values. This is bad because we cannot handle all binary data since we expect strings to be valid UTF-8 text. Thus we need a separate runtime object, and consequently a new type in the type system. We also want these for efficient binary serialization as it would be a shame to serialize binary data in Base64 encoding i a binary format. The name of the type should be Binary. It is parameterized with a mime content type. The default mime type is "application/octet-stream". Other content types could be "image/jpeg" etc. Type Algebra: Binary['application/octet-stream'] > Binary[<any other mime type>] Binary[<mime/path>] > Binary[<mime/path>(.+)] Binary[x] == Binary[x] an application-stream binary accepts all other mime types. a binary accepts another binary with a longer mime path starting with the entire LHS mimetype. two Binary types are equal iff the mime type is equal The runtime type is constructed by calling the type. The constructor has the following signatures: Encoding = Enum[base64, text, zip] String $content_type, Encoding $encoding, String $text_representation String $content_type, Binary $content The Encoding describes how the text should be transformed to binary base64; the UTF-8 string is base64 encoded text; the UTF-8 text is sent as is The base64 encoding should follow RFC 3548 or RFC 4648 with mandatory '=' padding and unlimited line length and accept both \n and \r\n as line ending and being insensitive to all whitespace, all non base 64 non whitespace characters are forbidden. In a separate ticket, a compress() function should be added that can compress binary data and produce a new Binary in compressed format (with appropriate mime type translation of the content type). Note, the base 64 encoding here has nothing to do with how the Binary is serialized as that depends on the serialization format. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.