[java-dev] Arbitrary binary data with TcpSender?

Why don't you  encode your byte array into a hex string and send that?
Its pretty straightforward.
T

Peter Castine wrote:
> I need to build an object that can send arbitrary binary data via TCP. I was hoping to use mxj, in particular com.cycling74.net.TcpSender for this purpose. But on closer examination, TcpSender only seems to grok standard Max data types.-(
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> I need to send largish (2-4kB) data structures of binary data to custom hardware, and the data simply does not parse into Atoms. Ideally I would like to simply pass a byte[] to a TcpSender, which does everything else I need quite handily. Is this possible? (Preparing the stream of bytes is not the problem, at least not yet!)
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> Thanks -- P
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