[Glass] How to properly write bytes objects into binary streams?

[Mariano Martinez Peck via Glass]

Hi guys,

In Pharo (yes, sorry if many of my threads start this way), we are able to
directly write a byte object, that is,  variableByteSubclass:... ,  into a
binary stream. Example:

| buffer position byteObject |
buffer := ByteArray new: 100.
position := 5.
byteObject := 8932479837423648732648237642.
buffer replaceFrom: position + 1 to: position + byteObject size with:
byteObject.

Now buffer is:

 #[0 0 0 0 0 74 234 94 86 234 171 88 69 46 198 220 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]

In the same way I wrote there a large positive integer, I can also write
any other byte-like object. This is efficient since I avoid a kind of
#asByteArray and mostly, because I have a unified way to write a byte
object to a binary stream, and then read it back.

In GemStone this doesn't work. I thought I could do a #asByteArray and then
a #nextPutAll:   That works, for example, for LargeInteger, but not for
Float or Character.

So....I wonder...is there a unified way to get a sequence of bytes from
byte-like objects and then to instantiate them with such sequence of bytes?

Thanks in advance,




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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
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