Sorry to keep bothering you folks with this but does anybody have an answer
to this?
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:26 AM Alex Flint <alex.fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh I expected that since I only called encoder.Encode once, there would
> only be on repetition of the outermost segment. I was expecting the
> wireType to be within the inner "(-type id, encoding of a wireType)*"
> segment. Otherwise shouldn't the spec be
>
> ((byteCount, -type id, encoding of a wireType)* (byteCount, type id,
> encoding of a value))*
>
> ?
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:47 AM Rob Pike <r...@golang.org> wrote:
>
>> It's as advertised, 1 count byte (1a=26) followed by 26 bytes, followed
>> by one count byte (5), followed by 5 bytes. Note the final '*' in that
>> grammar.
>> -rob
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Alex Flint <alex.fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The gob docs state that a gob stream consists of
>>>
>>> (byteCount (-type id, encoding of a wireType)* (type id, encoding of
>>> a value))*
>>>
>>> I was expecting byteCount to be the number of bytes remaining in the
>>> entire packet, but that does not seem to be the case. For example when
>>> encoding a single instance of "struct Number { X int }", the gob stream is
>>>
>>> 0000000 1a ff 81 03 01 01 06 4e 75 6d 62 65 72 01 ff 82
>>> 0000010 00 01 01 01 01 58 01 04 00 00 00 05 ff 82 01 06
>>> 0000020 00
>>>
>>> The entire stream is 33 bytes, so I was expecting the first byte to be
>>> 0x20, but in fact it is 0x1a. Is this count exclusive of the "(-type
>>> id, encoding of a wireType)*" segment?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
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