Method: Symbol.from_msgpack_ext

Defined in:
lib/msgpack/symbol.rb

.from_msgpack_ext(data) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/msgpack/symbol.rb', line 12

def self.from_msgpack_ext(data)
  # from_msgpack_ext is supposed to parse a binary string.
  # The canonical way to do it for symbols would be:
  #  data.unpack1('A*').to_sym
  # However in this instance we can take a shortcut

  # We assume the string encoding is UTF-8, and let Ruby create either
  # an ASCII symbol or UTF-8 symbol.
  data.force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8).to_sym
rescue EncodingError
  # If somehow the string wasn't valid UTF-8 not valid ASCII, we fallback
  # to what has been the historical behavior of creating a binary symbol
  data.force_encoding(Encoding::BINARY).to_sym
end