added support for encoding buffers

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/qpid/trunk/qpid@750960 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python/qpid/codec010.py b/python/qpid/codec010.py
index 62b0f6cf2a..f07362c38d 100644
--- a/python/qpid/codec010.py
+++ b/python/qpid/codec010.py
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ class Codec(Packer):
   def read_vbin8(self):
     return self.read(self.read_uint8())
   def write_vbin8(self, b):
+    if isinstance(b, buffer):
+      b = str(b)
     self.write_uint8(len(b))
     self.write(b)
 
@@ -140,6 +142,8 @@ class Codec(Packer):
   def read_vbin16(self):
     return self.read(self.read_uint16())
   def write_vbin16(self, b):
+    if isinstance(b, buffer):
+      b = str(b)
     self.write_uint16(len(b))
     self.write(b)
 
@@ -163,6 +167,8 @@ class Codec(Packer):
   def read_vbin32(self):
     return self.read(self.read_uint32())
   def write_vbin32(self, b):
+    if isinstance(b, buffer):
+      b = str(b)
     self.write_uint32(len(b))
     self.write(b)