feat: Add support for XML base64Binary type

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feat: Add support for XML base64Binary type

Matej-Hlatky opened this issue 10 months ago · comments

Matej Hlatký commented 10 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

To be able to map XML type "base64Binary", to Dart Uint8List and vice-versa.

Describe the solution you'd like
Support "base64Binary" to be mapped to / from Uint8List.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Working with plain strings and mapping to Dart type when needed.

Thomas Clark · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 07 2023 04:38:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @Matej-Hlatky, thank you for your feature request, I will investigate it over the weekend. In the meantime, I do have a question for you, how might you see base64Binary interacting with hexBinary given that both could map to Uint8List?

Matej Hlatký · Answer 2 · Sat Oct 07 2023 05:25:49 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi Thomas. I must admit that I didn't knew about hexBinary type. 😅 So it does not make sense to implement support (only) for base64String, since it wouldn't be unambiguous, when serializing. Maybe it would require additional param "dataType" in XmlAttribute / XmlElement annotation, like .NET does it? Or even better, support for custom XmlConverter (similar to JsonConverter from json_serializable) would be better best solution. Thanks a lot.

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Thomas Clark · Answer 3 · Sat Oct 07 2023 18:57:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Or even better, support for custom XmlConverter (similar to JsonConverter from json_serializable).

I am in favour of adding support for custom converters similar to the JsonConverter class (#49).