Re: USTRING "encoding" behavior different from STRING's?

Indeed, I do have a problem with the USTRING class, and my packet looks like 
as follows:

PACKET obex_header:
     P   DATA data "the actual header data"
     1   UINT headerId "one of the OBEX_HDR types"
     if self.headerId & com_obex.OBEX_HI_MASK == com_obex.OBEX_UNICODE:
         # additional +1 to account for terminator
         # utf_16be = big endian, seems obex goes by this?
         2 UINT { 'value': htons(len(self.data.encode("utf_16be")) + 4) } 
+headerSize
         * USTRING { 'encoding': "utf_16be", 'value': self.data } +headerData
     if self.headerId & com_obex.OBEX_HI_MASK == com_obex.OBEX_BYTE_STREAM:
         2 UINT { 'value': htons(len(self.data) + 3) } +headerSize
         * DATA { 'value': self.data } +headerData
     if self.headerId & com_obex.OBEX_HI_MASK == com_obex.OBEX_BYTE:
         1 UINT { 'value': self.data } +headerData
     if self.headerId & com_obex.OBEX_HI_MASK == com_obex.OBEX_INT:
         4 UINT { 'value': htonl(self.data) } +headerData

Basically, I call p_obex.obex_header(), set the headerId and data fields, when 
it comes time to write the packet, headerData and headerSize are populated 
automatically.  Previously, with STRING, the UNICODE headerData would be 
populated correctly with the encoded value of 'data'.

Anyway, excuse me if I exercised bad practice in the packet setup, I'm a newb 
when it comes to python.

Simon C wrote:

> The encoding keyword was only temporary in the STRING class, we decided 
> not to include it in favor of introducing USTRING and deprecating STRING 
> to reduce impact on existing code.
> You should not use STRING any more.
> 
> It sounds like you are having a problem with the USTRING class. Do you 
> have the latest updates? Can you provide an example of the packet you 
> defined?
> 
> Simon
>  
> 



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