Alan Conway wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:14 +0000, Robert Greig wrote:
On 20/12/06, Kim van der Riet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, will do - byte[] it is.
Perhaps we should change the term "longstr" in the spec to "binary" or
something similar. It would be less confusing.
I fully agree. I tried arguing this point in the past without any
success. I think the argument was "C programmers think of strings as
byte arrays"...
+1, longstr is misleading and it is entirely unfair to blame C
programmers! The type in question is a length-prefixed byte array. There
are no guarantees in the spec about being able to treat it as any type
of string.
I did a quick search and couldn't find a formal definition for longstr
in the spec - I must be blind, where is it?
Cheers,
Alan.
Just checked, there is no doc - so we should take to the working group
to fix. I also agree we
should rename it. If we are in agreement we should cross post it to the
AMQP working group
list.
