Send string data from symbian to .net

[ahlmans]

Hi!

I need to send string data with special characters from a Symbian S60 3rd Ed. phone to a server running on a Windows platform. The server is written in C++/CLI and I need the string data as a managed string on the server. I currently convert the string to UTF8 on the phone and send it, like this:

HBufC* heapbuffer = HBufC::NewLC(aMessage.Length());
heapbuffer->Des().Copy( aMessage );
HBufC8* heapbuffer8 = HBufC8::NewLC(aMessage.Length());
TPtr8 tmpBuf8(heapbuffer8->Des());
CnvUtfConverter::ConvertFromUnicodeToUtf8(tmpBuf8,*heapbuffer);

iSocket->Write(*heapbuffer8, iStatus);

The descriptor aMessage of course contains the message to be sent. Then, on the server I convert it back using the following code:

Encoding^ enc = Encoding::UTF8;
int socket = (int)param, bytesReceived, selectret;
char cbuf[BUFFER_MAX_LENGHT];
bytesReceived = recv(socket, cbuf, BUFFER_MAX_LENGHT, 0);

cbuf[bytesReceived] = '\0';
array<Byte>^ receivedBytes = gcnew array<Byte>(bytesReceived + 1);
for(int i = 0; i < (bytesReceived + 1); i++)
    receivedBytes[i] = cbuf[i];
System::String^ managedBuffer = enc->GetString(receivedBytes);

This works, most of the time. However, sometimes the data seems to be sent incorrectly. For example, I had big problems sending over a string containing the number 26. When appending this number to another string to be passed as an SQL statement to a function, the server crashed. However, if I first convert the string to a number containing the number 26, and the convert it back to a string it works.

Any idea what is wrong with my string conversion? In the end I am simple trying to send data possibly containing special chars to a server running on .NET. How should I do that?

[symbianyucca]

maybe you should base64 the data when sending it over, it should eliminate any problems with binary values of the string items at least.

[shrosenzwe]

It worked for me. I had to implement xml-rpc communications between .net server code (c#) and s60 phone, xml part was regular ascii, binary data in the message was base64-ed. Works like a dream.