Directory Listing Payload

[njh]

The current directory listing code has an example owserver response payload of:

var payloadResult = '/01.A7F1D92A82C8\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0011\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0010\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000/10.D8FE434D9855\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0011\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0010\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000/22.8CE2B3471711\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0011\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0010\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000/29.98542F112D05\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000 \u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000';

I have never seen anything like this in a real-world situation. And from reading the protocol documentation - I can't se how it is a valid response.

@colinl have you ever seen anything like this in the payload field?

If not, I think I will remove the code and tests that handle this.
I have a feeling that it was due to a bug elsewhere in the code.

[colinl]

I have not actually used it for getting a directory listing, but I can't see why it would look like that.

[colinl]

I suspect the binary stuff is additional headers interspersed between payloads, so caused by the bug in issue #26.

[njh]

Yes, I agree with you @colinl - it looks just like additional headers. I am going to simplify the code and test but then should probably do some testing with hardware before making another release.

[colinl]

Which code in particular do you think can be simplified?

[njh]

This strips out any characters in the range 0x00 - 0x1F:

node-owfs/lib/base/convert.js

Line 45 in 0e9a1ac

var exp = new RegExp('[\u0000-\u001F]', 'g')

I am going to change it to just remove a trailing NULL.

[colinl]

Ah right, I am with you now. I think you are correct, the fix for #26 should stop the headers from being there at that point in the code. Which is what I already said a few days ago, I am getting old.