[interfacekit] Re: Flattened BMessages

I can't offer any concrete advice on this, but you might want to check 
out MUSCLE, which does translations between it's own flattened 
muscle::Message class and BMessages.  You might find some useful 
information there.

e

Marc Flerackers wrote:

> Has anyone looked into the flattened BMessage format yet? I wrote a BMessage
> implementation, but flattening and unflattening is still not compatible.
> 
> This is what I found out for a message like the one posted at
> http://www.freelists.org/archives/openbeos/05-2002/fullthread209.html:
> 
> Data          Bytes   Meaning
> 
> 1(ascii)      1               version
> BOFQ          4               flattened bmessage
> ??            7               ??
> DPUQ          4               what(B_QUERY_UPDATE)
> ??            5               ??
> 
> 0F            1               fixed chunk size?
> GNOL          4               type
> 04            1               chunk size
> 06            1               name length
> opcode        6               name
> 1             4               data
> 
> 0F            1               fixed chunk size?
> GNOL          4               type
> 04            1               chunk size
> 06            1               name length
> device        6               name
> 4             4               data
> 
> 0F            1               fixed chunk size?
> GNLL          4               type
> 08            1               chunk size
> 09            1               name length
> directory     9               name
> 524992        8               data
> 
> 0F            1               fixed chunk size?
> GNLL          4               type
> 08            1               chunk size
> 04            1               name length
> node          4               name
> 524295        8               data
> 
> 0B            1               variable chunk size?
> RTSC          4               type
> 08            1               chunk size
> 04            1               name length
> node          4               name
> 08            1               chunk size?
>               8               padded string?
> 
> Some of the header information and the count for the entry_hdr structs is
> still missing. Any ideas?
> 
> Marc Flerackers (mflerackers@xxxxxxxxxx)
> Software Engineer
> ANDROME NV
> 
> 
> 
>

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