From f0d2e1e372cd60ccdea4f6108822463a0cf71853 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 14:22:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] common: add encode and decode routines for opaque vectors of
 bytes

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
---
 src/include/encoding.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/include/encoding.h b/src/include/encoding.h
index 49f2f77be30..40ba9d39c76 100644
--- a/src/include/encoding.h
+++ b/src/include/encoding.h
@@ -246,6 +246,23 @@ inline void encode(const char *s, bufferlist& bl)
   encode(std::string_view(s, strlen(s)), bl);
 }
 
+// opaque byte vectors
+inline void encode(std::vector<uint8_t>& v, bufferlist& bl)
+{
+  uint32_t len = v.size();
+  encode(len, bl);
+  if (len)
+    bl.append((char *)v.data(), len);
+}
+
+inline void decode(std::vector<uint8_t>& v, bufferlist::const_iterator& p)
+{
+  uint32_t len;
+
+  decode(len, p);
+  v.resize(len);
+  p.copy(len, (char *)v.data());
+}
 
 // -----------------------------
 // buffers
-- 
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