[Pljava-dev] readBytes() / writeBytes()

Hi,

I just stumbled about the readBytes() / writeBytes() methods from
SQLInputFromChunk / SQLOutputFromChunk classes.

They seem to assume that every array has a 2-byte length header.

Where does this assumption come from? Are there some internal data types
that use this format?

I ask because I'm currently writing a pljava interface for the PostGIS
datatypes, and my hope was that readBytes() just reads the whole
(variable-length) datatype into the byte array.

Another issue is the endianness. For double, I assume that, at least on
IEEE floating point platforms, the layout is endian free. But readInt()
etc. seem to use big endian regardless of the underlying platform.

So it seems that I have to use readByte() and put everything together in
the right order on myself, right?

Btw, is does the stream include the 4-byte length header for variable
length datatypes? The examples seem to cover only fixed-size types.

Thanks,
Markus

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