Re: Recap of TPAC discussion

what about an object with related gettters to "extract" it in different
formats (binary/json) ?


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:04 AM, Brendan Long <B.Long@cablelabs.com> wrote:

> > > Are we planning to expose the metadata as JSON or something like that,
> > >or would it make more sense to expose it as binary?
> > >
> > >I'm personally a fan of JSON, but it sounds like other developers would
> > >prefer directly exposing the original binary (although in some cases,
> > >like MPEG-TS, that might be a *lot* of data).
> >
> > I am going to propose the same encoding - a hexadecimal representation.
> > This will be easier for the UA than JSON.
>
> But if the contents are binary, we might as well just define it as binary.
> Base64 encoding and putting it in a string seems unnecessary.
>