Hi, I’m using binpac as a standalone parser for RTMP (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp/)
RTMP is a binary protocol that does not delimit frames/chunks like other fixed frame protocols. eg. An RTMP chunk can be of type 0-3, the only way to find the length is to first read the whole packet and then derive the length depending on the chunk type.
My question is how can I do this in binpac since the enclosing record expects a length but it can only be provided after parsing the child records, eg.
type Chunk0 = record {
msgLen:uint32;
};
type Chunk0 = record {
chunkId:uint32;
} &let {
msgLen = # calculated from chunkId
};
type Chunk = record {
basicHeader:uint8;
chunk: case basicHeader of {
0 → chunk0:Chunk0;
1 → chunk0:Chunk1;
2 → chunk0:Chunk2;
3 → chunk0:Chunk3;
}
data: bytestring &restofdata;
} &length = ???;
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.