Re: Problems with Variant serialization

Hi Andrzej

First sorry for being so slow in answering this, been a bit busy.

Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

>
> I noticed, however, that the result I'm getting is a Byte[], where the
> original Variant is supposed to contain byte[]. I'm wondering if I
> shouldn't get a byte[] as well? I'm slightly concerned about the memory
> footprint of objects vs. primitive types, for large arrays...

I understand why you are concerned about this. Is it correct that the
returned array are of type: "VT_ARRAY | VT_UI1 | VT_VARIANT"?

If this is the case I suggest you try to do the following in
org.jawin.Variant:

In the method:
   private static Object readObject(short vt, LittleEndianInputStream
leis) throws COMException, IOException {

Move the two starting "if's", that is:
   if (0 != (vt & VarTypes.VT_ARRAY)) {
     return readArray((short) (vt & VarTypes.VT_TYPEMASK), leis);
   }

   if (0 != (vt & VarTypes.VT_BYREF)) {
     return readObject((short) (vt & VarTypes.VT_TYPEMASK), leis);
   }

to the bottom of the method, and outcomment the "default" in the case
above this, that is the line:
   throw new COMException("Unable to deserialize variant type: " + vt);

Please let me know if this solves your problem? Then I will check in
this change (sorry for using you for fixing this, but I don't have time
right now to write a testcase, and test it locally).

Best Regards
Morten