[consfigurator] binary (non utf8) secrets

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Sun 13 Apr 2025 at 08:06am -03, David Bremner wrote:

>> Though ... STRING-DATA suggests that valid UTF-8 is required.  FILE-DATA
>> isn't appropriate for DATA.PGP, so perhaps we need a new OCTETS-DATA.
>
> Hmm. Not sure if you refer to just the naming issue, but
> consfigurator::%get-data-string does return the expected
> (SIMPLE-ARRAY (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) (512))

Thanks.  The %GET-DATA-STREAM generic, specialised on STRING-DATA,
unconditionally tries to encode a string into bytes.  But that's not
appropriate in your case.  That's why I'm thinking we need a new
BINARY-DATA/OCTETS-DATA which would have %GET-DATA-STRING and
%GET-DATA-STREAM implementations that didn't try to transform the array.
Or possibly we could make that generic only try to encode if it is
actually given a string, but why not make use the type system, eh?

-- 
Sean Whitton