From eba2deca7aa16097bdefabd039fbbbc02b3f5672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20Fonseca?= <jose.r.fonseca@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:12:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Pickle blobs as bytearrays.

---
 cli/cli_pickle.cpp |  2 +-
 common/pickle.hpp  | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cli/cli_pickle.cpp b/cli/cli_pickle.cpp
index e3222db..9145f44 100644
--- a/cli/cli_pickle.cpp
+++ b/cli/cli_pickle.cpp
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ public:
     }
 
     void visit(Blob *node) {
-        writer.writeString((const char *)node->buf, node->size);
+        writer.writeByteArray(node->buf, node->size);
     }
 
     void visit(Pointer *node) {
diff --git a/common/pickle.hpp b/common/pickle.hpp
index 736025b..60694fa 100644
--- a/common/pickle.hpp
+++ b/common/pickle.hpp
@@ -268,6 +268,16 @@ public:
         os.put(u.c[0]);
     }
 
+    inline void writeByteArray(const void *buf, size_t length) {
+        os.put(GLOBAL);
+        os << "__builtin__\nbytearray\n";
+        os.put(BINPUT);
+        os.put(1);
+        writeString(static_cast<const char *>(buf), length);
+        os.put(TUPLE1);
+        os.put(REDUCE);
+    }
+
 protected:
     inline void putInt16(uint16_t i) {
         os.put( i        & 0xff);
-- 
2.45.2