[omniORB] Octet type

[Huw Rogers]

This is way inefficient. You can directly
access &(*errors)[0] to get the start
of the 2000 byte buffer, and fill it directly
with one read, then set the length. No
need for a loop.

    -Huw

Brecht Vermeulen wrote:

> Michel,
>
> this code does this (bytestream is a sequence of octets) :
>
>
>         click_router::bytestream_var errors = new click_router::bytestream;
>
>
>         // now read the errors and return them
>         ifstream errors_file(CLICK_ERRORS);
>         errors->length(2000);           // start length of 2000 octets
>
>         CORBA::Octet ch;
>         CORBA::ULong i=0;
>         while(errors_file.get(ch) ) {
>                 if (i>errors->length()-1) errors->length(i+500);
>                 errors[i++] = ch;
>         };
>
>         errors->length(i);
>
>         errors_file.close();
>
>         return errors._retn();
>
> best regards,
> Brecht
>
> Miguel wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have to transmit a texture from a server to a client. It can be in
> > different formats (such as .rgb, .jpg, .gif...) so I've decided to
> > send all of them as a sequence of octets. The problem is that I don't have
> > a good knowledge about using the octet type, so
> > I don't know how to read data from the file and convert it to an octet (and
> > how to convert an octet to data) (perhaps with
> > a simple cast??)
> >
> > Any suggestion or info about the octet type?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Bye.