Module: PropertyList::BinaryMarkers

Included in:

BinaryGenerator, BinaryParser

Defined in:

lib/property-list/binary_markers.rb

Constant Summary

MARKER_NULL =

These marker bytes are prefixed to objects in a binary property list to indicate the type of the object.

0b0000_0000

MARKER_FALSE =

v1?+ only

0b0000_1000

MARKER_TRUE =

0b0000_1001

MARKER_NO_BASE_URL =

followed by string, v1?+ only

0b0000_1100

MARKER_WITH_BASE_URL =

followed by string, v1?+ only

0b0000_1101

MARKER_UUID =

16 byte uuid, v1?+ only

0b0000_1110

MARKER_FILL =

fill byte

0b0000_1111

MARKER_INT =

0nnn

0b0001_0000

MARKER_REAL =

0nnn

0b0010_0000

MARKER_DATE =

follows 8 byte big endian float

0b0011_0011

MARKER_DATA =

int

0b0100_0000

MARKER_ASCII_STRING =

int

0b0101_0000

MARKER_UTF16BE_STRING =

int

0b0110_0000

MARKER_UTF8_STRING =

[int], v1?+ only

0b0111_0000

MARKER_UID =

nnnn, followed by nnnn+1 bytes

0b1000_0000

MARKER_ARRAY =

0b1001_xxxx # unused

0b1010_0000

MARKER_ORD_SET =

v1?+ only

0b1011_0000

MARKER_SET =

v1?+ only

0b1100_0000

MARKER_DICT =

0b1101_0000

TIME_INTERVAL_SINCE_1970 =

POSIX uses a reference time of 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z; Cocoa’s reference time is in 2001. This interval is for converting between the two.

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