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It's an interesting discussion but do you need to chunk strings for transmission into displayable substrings or is it sufficient to assume all-or-nothing or at
by projektfu 4y ago
It's an interesting discussion but do you need to chunk strings for transmission into displayable substrings or is it sufficient to assume all-or-nothing or at least in-order reassembly of the string at the other end? Choosing to treat it as chunked binary can eliminate a lot of complexity.
- yurishimo 4y agoI'm assuming the use case is to send messages back to the user on a platform like Whatsapp after the CSR writes a few paragraphs in their help desk software. This seems like the final step before making the API calls to actually send those messages to the user. I agree, that in a scenario where you control both ends of transmission, a boring binary chunk would be easier and simpler.
- wofo 4y agoI agree with both of you :). Sending an opaque binary blob and reassembling it at the other side would have been ideal... but with some of the third-party systems we integrate with it is not possible