Hi *, On 4/19/20 5:31 PM, Alessio Vanni wrote: > In my opinion, a nicer approach could be something based on Java's > Buffer object from the NIO package. For example (again no error > checking; also the names could use some more work):
We already have something exactly like that: https://git.gnunet.org/gnunet.git/tree/src/include/gnunet_buffer_lib.h Maybe it makes more sense to add new functionality to the buffer lib? I.e., teach the buffer lib to read from / write to files, in a similar fashion to the Java NIO that you've mentioned. We can also add some other ways to read/parse data, such as the ones Christian suggested. Then we can remove BIO eventually, as it's not a nice API ("abomination") and sits at a weird level of abstraction. - Florian
