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ASiwon

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From: Poland

Registered: 2015-01-30

Posts: 82

Unexpected TInterfaceStub behaviour

Hello,

today I have upgraded mormot from version from 29th April to the newest. After change I found unexpected change in creation of stubs for interfaces with RawByteString properties. Earlier stub was prepared using following code:

  cPassword: RawUTF8 = 'hasloPlain';
  cPasswordEncoded: RawByteString = 'hasloEncoded';

  TInterfaceStub.Create(TypeInfo(IGxPasswordCoder), coder).
    Returns('Encode', [cPassword], [cPasswordEncoded]);

and stub works correctly. After upgrading, stub after calling Encode function returns wrong value. Only when preparation code is changed to:

  TInterfaceStub.Create(TypeInfo(IGxPasswordCoder), coder).
    Returns('Encode', [cPassword], [BinToBase64(cPasswordEncoded)]);

then everything works correctly. I just want to know: Is it intentional change in mORMot and must I change all my stubs definitions?

Last edited by ASiwon (2015-07-18 15:20:05)

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Adam Siwon

ab

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From: France

Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 14,655

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Re: Unexpected TInterfaceStub behaviour

I suspect this comes from the fact that RawByteString are now encoded as Base64, when serialized as JSON.
Previous behavior was not correct, since any #0 char within the RawByteString may have broken the process.
It also allows to send arbitrary binary data from interface-based services to (web) clients, in a standard way.

I think the new pattern is more correct.
Your cPasswordEncoded should be serialized as Base64 string, in the JSON content.