Xapian devel - Aug 2012 - Question about serialise

Hi,

Do the serialise method of Document and Query produce a valid utf8 string?
My problem is with the Node.JS binding. I serialise an object, convert the
string to a javascript string, convert the javascript string to a std
string and then try to unserialise. The error I get from Xapian is "Bad
encoded length: no data".

Thanks,
Marius
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On 6 August 2012 09:48, Marius Tibeica <mtibeica at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Do the serialise method of Document and Query produce a valid utf8 string?
No, they produce a byte string which may contain any byte values.

I'm not sure what the node bindings do with these; if there's no byte
type available in node, there should probably be some option to get
the serialised values as a base64 encoded string or something like
that (but such an option doesn't currently exist as far as I know).

-- 
Richard