Plans for qpid::framing::FieldTable

[Ted Ross]

Andrew,

I'm beginning to use field tables for my management work and I've found 
that the FieldTable interface (C++ broker) only has direct support for a 
couple of types (Integer, String, Timestamp, Table).  Do you have any 
plans to expand this set?  The above types are very generic whereas the 
types in the AMQP spec are very specific in terms of size and 
signedness.  What's the plan for supporting the larger set of available 
types in field tables?  I assume there's a 
consistent-naming-in-client-APIs issue here.

If I use the more generic interface (i.e. FixedWidthVariable template), 
I will need to embed AMQP type codes into my code which doesn't seem 
like a good idea from a maintainability standpoint.

-Ted