Fix for writing empty strings to Parcel::writeString8()

If writeString8 is called with the following sequence:

 writeString8(String8(""));
 writeString8(String8("TempString"));

Then in the readString8, the 2nd String i.e. "TempString" is not read,
instead an empty string is read.

The bug comes because of the write call for String8("") where there are
no String bytes present. In the write Statement, an extra ‘\0’ is
written. During the Marshalling, Following bytes are written:

1        2         3        4       5   ...
0x0      0x0       0xB      ‘T’     ‘e’  ...

The readString8 function has a check that, if String length is 0, don’t
read anything. So the first byte is read as the length for the first
string. The second byte i.e. ‘\0’ is read as the length for the second
string and hence the second string becomes empty too.

Change-Id: Id7acc0c80ae16e77be4331f1ddf69ea87e758420
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Pravat Dalbehera 2010-12-15 08:40:00 +01:00 committed by Johan Redestig
parent fae89a5076
commit d1dff8d4d4
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -619,7 +619,10 @@ status_t Parcel::writeCString(const char* str)
status_t Parcel::writeString8(const String8& str)
{
status_t err = writeInt32(str.bytes());
if (err == NO_ERROR) {
// only write string if its length is more than zero characters,
// as readString8 will only read if the length field is non-zero.
// this is slightly different from how writeString16 works.
if (str.bytes() > 0 && err == NO_ERROR) {
err = write(str.string(), str.bytes()+1);
}
return err;