- def BytesToValue(self, bytes):
- """Converts a string of bytes into a type and value
-
- Args:
- A string containing bytes
-
- Return:
- A tuple:
- Type of data
- Data, either a single element or a list of elements. Each element
- is one of:
- TYPE_STRING: string value from the property
- TYPE_INT: a byte-swapped integer stored as a 4-byte string
- TYPE_BYTE: a byte stored as a single-byte string
- """
- bytes = str(bytes)
- size = len(bytes)
- strings = bytes.split('\0')
- is_string = True
- count = len(strings) - 1
- if count > 0 and not strings[-1]:
- for string in strings[:-1]:
- if not string:
- is_string = False
- break
- for ch in string:
- if ch < ' ' or ch > '~':
- is_string = False
- break
- else:
- is_string = False
- if is_string:
- if count == 1:
- return TYPE_STRING, strings[0]
- else:
- return TYPE_STRING, strings[:-1]
- if size % 4:
- if size == 1:
- return TYPE_BYTE, bytes[0]
- else:
- return TYPE_BYTE, list(bytes)
- val = []
- for i in range(0, size, 4):
- val.append(bytes[i:i + 4])
- if size == 4:
- return TYPE_INT, val[0]
- else:
- return TYPE_INT, val
-