[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/1] Base64-encode non-printable data

Alex Nelson ajnelson at cs.ucsc.edu
Sat Sep 17 04:30:00 UTC 2011


I expect this patch to require a second version.  I mainly wanted to
spur discussion:
* I firmly believe hivexml needs more encoding checks before printing.
Base64 encoding made the most sense as hivexml already uses it
elsewhere.  Is this the right direction to go, to escape non-printable
data?
* Should there be an enumeration for encoding decisions?  I'm returning
strings because it felt a little like over-engineering for something I
could just see as having two values.
* There need to be at most two encoding descriptors for a values and
one for nodes.  Keys and values might need to encode their names.
Values might also need to encode their data.  We already know I'm
pushing for value data to go into attributes in another patch series.
Could we change the "encoding" value attribute to "value_encoding"?
* I'd like to change values' "key" attribute to "name" attributes.
Rich, what are your feelings, or what are the policies to which you're
adhering, on changing the name of an element that hivexml has already
been producing?  You've been quite accepting of new functionality coming
in, but what about renaming what's present?

--Alex


Alex Nelson (1):
  hivexml: Base64-encode non-printable data

 xml/hivexml.c |   75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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