Re: [PATCH] Expose port->authn_id to extensions and triggers

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 2:02 AM Drouvot, Bertrand <bdrouvot@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 8/14/22 11:57 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >    One thing was itching me about the serialization and
> > deserialization logic though: could it be more readable if we used an
> > intermediate structure to store the length of the serialized strings?
> > We use this approach in other areas, like for the snapshot data in
> > snapmgr.c.  This would handle the case of an empty and NULL string, by
> > storing -1 as length for NULL and >= 0 for the string length if there
> > is something set, while making the addition of more fields a
> > no-brainer.
>
> I think that's a good idea and I think that would be more readable (as
> compare to storing a "hint" in the first byte).

Sounds good. v3, attached, should make the requested changes:
- declare `struct ClientConnectionInfo`
- use an intermediate serialization struct
- switch to length-"prefixing" for the string

I do like the way this reads compared to before.

Thanks,
--Jacob