Byte array question

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1152817088.549439.201960 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Dan Winsor
wrote:

> Sybren Stuvel wrote:
>> dan.winsor at gmail.com enlightened us with:
>> > I want to send thorugh the API.  However, no matter how I try it,
>> > Java on the other end doesn't like what I'm passing it there.
>>
>> What have you tried and how did it fail?
> 
> See below.
> 
>> > How can I mimic a byte array in python?
>>
>> Strings?
> 
> OK, I'll put that attempt up front.  Here's a couple of tries:
> 
> <test code snippet>
> fileobj = open('testfile.txt', mode='r')
> chararray = fileobj.read()
> fileobj.close()
> 
> soap.addAttachmentsToIssue(auth,'TST-4','testfile.txt',chararray)
> 
> <fails with>
> SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault soapenv:Server.userException:
> org.xml.sax.SAXException: Found character data inside an array element
> while deserializing: <SOAPpy.Types.structType detail at -1216265236>:
> {'hostname': '<removed>', 'faultData': <SOAPpy.Types.structType
> faultData at -1216226708>: {'exception': None, 'message': 'Found
> character data inside an array element while deserializing'}}>

In the Java snippet from your initial post the `chararray` argument was an
*array* of `Byte` arrays.  A string is just an one dimensional "byte
array".  Maybe it helps if you put `chararray` into a list!?

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch