March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 44m
English
A record is a byte array of type byte []. The RMS doesn't support the definition or formatting of fields within a record. Your application must define the data elements within a record and their format.
The reader of a record, therefore, must be aware of the format that was used to write the record. Because a record is simply a byte array, applications must convert data from arbitrary types to bytes when writing records, and they must convert from bytes to those types upon reading the data.
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