How do you represent bencoded strings that contain a <hex> tag to avoid ambiguity?

[josecelano]

Relates to: torrust/bencode2json#7

I implemented a port of the format <hex>...</hex> use in this repo to Rust:

torrust/bencode2json#7

And someone told me it's not reversible. I had not realized.

It's just to warn other people using this format. Maybe we can come up with an alternative. I think this is the only repo I've seen using this format.

[Chocobo1]

How do you represent bencoded strings that contain a tag to avoid ambiguity?

I don't. I rely on the probability that hitting this edge case is very low for my application. Even if encountered, I can just shrug and say too bad, this isn't supported.

This special representation (<hex></hex>) is not so useful for a library author and I don't think it is able to improve it. The best you can do is (probably) try to convert to string and fallback to raw bytes when failed.