Look at the simple decoder in encoding/gob/debug.go.
-rob
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Alex Flint <alex.fl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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