Is there a way to insert Blobs instead of Nat8 arrays?
fermartz opened this issue · comments
Hey @sardariuss thanks for creating this library.
I was wondering if the value of the btree can be a Blob or is a requirement to be a Nat8 array?
let value : Blob = "\00\00\00\66";
btreemap_.insert(key, value);
Hey @fermatz, sorry for the late answer.
It is possible to use any type really, but you need to give to the btree a converter to its "internal representation" of data.
On the main branch, the lib uses [Nat8] indeed, so you need to give a converter from Blob <-> [Nat8]
On the recenter improvement/useBlob, the lib uses Blobs internally, so you can give it a "passthrough" converter, that directly returns your Blob. Have a look a bytesConverter.mo.
That being said, may I ask what is your intend of using this library?
Because that library has some limitations and hasn't been quite used yet for now, I would advise using the hashmap from ZhenyaUsenko instead: https://github.com/ZhenyaUsenko/motoko-hash-map/tree/master