Okay, clicked send to early. The header also contains 0-bytes, so the
repeated stops 'mid-sentence' and tries to balance things. Is there
any way Gloss can handle nested structures like this?

On Jan 2, 12:20 pm, "pepijn (aka fliebel)" <pepijnde...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for helping out. After using codecs rather than frames, I get
> even weirder errors.
>
> My code now gives me: java.lang.Exception: Cannot evenly divide bytes
> into sequence of frames.
>
> Hard coding the header followed by a terminating :byte works as it
> should:
>
> (decode (compile-frame [tag tstring (header tag (memoize #(compile-
> frame [(name %) tstring (get-tag %)])) (comp symbol first)) :byte])
> data)
> [:compound "hello world" ["string" "name" "Bananrama"] 0]
>
> So the problem seems to be with the repeated. Investigating that, I
> copied an example from the introduction page, and this is the result:
> (defcodec t (repeated (string :utf-8 :delimiters ["\n"]) :delimiters
> ["\0"]))
> (encode t ["foo" "bar" "baz"])
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Don't know how to create ISeq
> from: java.nio.HeapByteBuffer
> ((#<HeapByteBuffer java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=3 cap=3]>
> #<HeapByteBuffer java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=1 cap=1]>)
> (#<HeapByteBuffer java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=3 cap=3]>
> #<HeapByteBuffer java.nio.HeapByteBuffer[pos=0 lim=1 cap=1]>)
>
> But on the other hand:
> (decode t (.getBytes "blabla\nhihi\ngrrrr\n\0"))
> ["blabla" "hihi" "grrrr"]
>
> This gives me the same error as my code, but since the header in my
> code seems correct, I don't see why it has leftover bytes.
> (decode t (.getBytes "blabla\nhihi\ngrrrr\0"))
> java.lang.Exception: Cannot evenly divide bytes into sequence of
> frames.
>
> By the way, is there an easy way to get something readable out of
> encode? Like Unix hexdump, or even just a seq of integers. Debugging
> is a weak point in Gloss so far, if you ask me.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pepijn de Vos
>
> On Jan 1, 10:47 pm, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > The header->body function in (header ...) must return a codec, so you
> > need to call compile-frame on the vector you're generating.  Since you
> > don't want to call compile-frame every time you decode a frame, you
> > can memoize the function.  A version that does both can be found 
> > athttps://gist.github.com/762031.
>
> > I agree that the way the enumeration and types are blurred in your
> > code is a little confusing.  You could create a stronger distinction
> > by calling your enumerated types :tag-byte, :tag-int32, etc, and then
> > defining a map from those tags onto :byte, :int32, and so on.
>
> > Zach
>
> > On Jan 1, 1:01 pm, "pepijn (aka fliebel)" <pepijnde...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Hey,
>
> > > I am trying Gloss for reading NBT [1] files.
>
> > > First thing I did like is that it seems to make things real easy.
> > > First thing I did not like is the weak separation between types
> > > like :byte and extra data like :foo.
>
> > > I think I'm nearly done with the NBT reader [2], but I ran into a
> > > problem. Whatever I put in the header form, I get exceptions like
> > > this:
>
> > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No implementation of
> > > method: :sizeof of protocol: #'gloss.core.protocols/Writer found for
> > > class: clojure.lang.PersistentVector
>
> > > Only thing it mentions in the stacktrace [3] is methods on a reify,
> > > which calls the same method again, or in the most recent case, just
> > > return nil.
>
> > > [1]http://www.minecraft.net/docs/NBT.txt
> > > [2]https://gist.github.com/761997
> > > [3]http://pastebin.com/AqrsbjuS
>
> > > On Nov 28 2010, 8:14 pm, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > You're right, that's an omission from the frame syntax.  I'll add the
> > > > ability for all or part of the frame to be scoped as (little-
> > > > endian ...) and (big-endian ...), with big-endian as the default.
>
> > > > Just as a side-note, though, Calx [1] is already handling little-
> > > > endian data by using encode-to-buffer, where it's writing to a buffer
> > > > whose endianness has been preset.   This obviously isn't a general
> > > > solution, but just thought I'd point it out.
>
> > > > Zach
>
> > > > [1]https://github.com/ztellman/calx
>
> > > > On Nov 28, 8:50 am, zoka <ztomi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > If Gloss is to decode incoming packet (byte array) in little-endian
> > > > > format it is straightforward:
> > > > > Wrap byte array into ByteBuffer b, invoke b.order(LITTLE_ENDIAN) and
> > > > > pass b to decode function that will return Clojure map of decoded
> > > > > values.
>
> > > > > However, when outgoing packet byte array is to be produced from map of
> > > > > values, encode function will always return ByteBuffer in default big-
> > > > > endian format, so resulting byte array extracted form ByteBuffer using
> > > > > get() method will be incorrect.
>
> > > > > If Gloss is to support little-endian frames, it seems that endianness
> > > > > needs to be part of frame definition. In that case Gloss decode fun
> > > > > would refuse to accept ByteBuffers with wrong order() and encode fun
> > > > > will always generate the correct result.
>
> > > > > Zoka
>
> > > > > On Nov 25, 3:00 am, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > ByteBuffers have an order() method which allows you to toggle the
> > > > > > endianness.  I haven't tested this, but since everything is built on
> > > > > > top of Java's ByteBuffer functionality it should be fine as long as
> > > > > > the ByteBuffers are correctly set and correctly ordered with respect
> > > > > > to each other.
>
> > > > > > Zach
>
> > > > > > On Nov 23, 2:52 pm, zoka <ztomi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > JVM stores numbers in in big endian format - is there a way to 
> > > > > > > process
> > > > > > > binary stream containing little endian numbers?
>
> > > > > > > Zoka
>
> > > > > > > On Nov 24, 7:24 am, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > Good question.  The solution didn't make the cut for my initial
> > > > > > > > release, but will be added soon.  My plan is to have an 
> > > > > > > > (ordered-
> > > > > > > > map ...) frame which encodes and decodes the keys in the given 
> > > > > > > > order.
> > > > > > > > So for C interop, the frame would be
>
> > > > > > > > (ordered-map :a :int16, :b :float32)
>
> > > > > > > > An alternative would be to just turn any vector which is 
> > > > > > > > alternating
> > > > > > > > keys and types into an ordered-map, but that seems a bit too 
> > > > > > > > magical.
>
> > > > > > > > Zach
>
> > > > > > > > On Nov 23, 12:12 pm, Chris Perkins <chrisperkin...@gmail.com> 
> > > > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > On Nov 23, 12:03 pm, Zach Tellman <ztell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > > > When writing Calx [1], I discovered it was a huge pain to 
> > > > > > > > > > deal with
> > > > > > > > > > mixed C datatypes in Java.  When writing Aleph [2], I 
> > > > > > > > > > discovered the
> > > > > > > > > > problem increases by a factor of ten when dealing with 
> > > > > > > > > > streams of
> > > > > > > > > > bytes.  In an attempt to alleviate my own pain, and 
> > > > > > > > > > hopefully help a
> > > > > > > > > > few other people out, I've written Gloss, which can 
> > > > > > > > > > transform a simple
> > > > > > > > > > byte-format specification into an encoder and streaming 
> > > > > > > > > > decoder.
>
> > > > > > > > > > A full writeup can be found 
> > > > > > > > > > athttps://github.com/ztellman/gloss/wiki.
>
> > > > > > > > > > A few people have already asked me how this differs from 
> > > > > > > > > > protocol
> > > > > > > > > > buffers, so I'll preemptively answer that protocol buffers 
> > > > > > > > > > are a fixed
> > > > > > > > > > format that cannot be used to interface with external 
> > > > > > > > > > systems.  Gloss
> > > > > > > > > > is less performant than protocol buffers, but is also much 
> > > > > > > > > > less picky
> > > > > > > > > > about formats.
>
> > > > > > > > > > If anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
>
> > > > > > > > > Looks very useful, Zach. Thanks.
>
> > > > > > > > > I have a question.
>
> > > > > > > > > I have only taken a quick look, so maybe I'm misunderstanding 
> > > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > > intent, but it's not clear to me how you would use this for 
> > > > > > > > > sending
> > > > > > > > > and receiving structured data from, say, a C program.
>
> > > > > > > > > Taking your example from the wiki:
>
> > > > > > > > > (def fr (compile-frame {:a :int16, :b :float32}))
>
> > > > > > > > > Let's say I want to talk to a C program that speaks in 
> > > > > > > > > structs, like
> > > > > > > > > this:
>
> > > > > > > > > struct Foo { short a; float b; }
>
> > > > > > > > > The problem is, the C program cares about order - the short 
> > > > > > > > > comes
> > > > > > > > > before the float. How does the Clojure program know what 
> > > > > > > > > order I need
> > > > > > > > > the fields in, since I have specified the format with a map; 
> > > > > > > > > an
> > > > > > > > > unordered data structure? Is there another way to specify a 
> > > > > > > > > structure
> > > > > > > > > where order of the fields matters? If so, why have two ways 
> > > > > > > > > of doing
> > > > > > > > > it? Or am I just missing something?
>
> > > > > > > > > Thanks,
>
> > > > > > > > > - Chris

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