StorageFile.write and ArrayBuffer

[notEvil]

Hi,

ArrayBuffer objects can be written directly with Storage.write but not with StorageFile.write (the latter performs something like ArrayBuffer.toString). Is there another way to achieve this?

My (naive) impression is that if string objects of ArrayBuffer objects were accessible, like ArrayBuffer objects of *Array objects with *Array.buffer, the interface would be simpler (e.g. Storage.write wouldn't need a special case for ArrayBuffers).

[notEvil]

Just found E.toString(ArrayBuffer) which is close enough, sorry for the distraction. Still for ArrayBuffers backed by normal strings it may still fail when there isn't enough memory left.

[gfwilliams]

Hi - yes, you're right - this is definitely something that should be fixable pretty easily - we should be able to iterate over pretty much anything and write it to a file. I guess it might just have been because it was easier (as we ideally want to write a chunk of flash rather than one byte at a time) but it shouldn't be too difficult

[notEvil]

Thanks!

Just fyi, I stopped using StorageFile, because of the "no 0xff" restriction, in favor of my own implementation (writes current size to first 2 bytes on flush) which better suits my use case.

[gfwilliams]

Thanks - yes, I have been wondering about redoing StorageFile using packets of size+data. Obviously tweaking it would mean making it incompatible with data saved on older implementations, which will probably upset some people though