Binary data
tarcieri opened this issue · comments
Presently objecthash mandates all strings be valid Unicode. This makes it difficult to authenticate arbitrary binary data.
It'd be nice if there were an actual binary type. I think binary data should probably be added in addition to (not as a replacement for) the Unicode string type, so automatic normalization is still an option.
Tough to pick a domain qualifier for this though, given b is already boolean and s is already set. I ended up informally using o in one of my projects.
In TJSON I ended up using case to distinguish scalar and non-scalar types (i.e. capital for non-scalars, lower case for scalars). This allowed me to have S for set and s for string.
#40 makes objecthash "work" for []byte types. Although it will treat them as lists of (unsigned) integers. This might be problematic given that binary data should most probably be hashed as a single binary blob.
I'm having horrible horrible flashbacks to Erlang right now
We should definitely fix that, @maljub01.
Oh, you already did. :-)