[Libguestfs] Hivex3: Saving values - always string

[Martin Klíma]

Thanks, now I understand :)

On 5.3.2014 17:24, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:16:24PM +0100, Martin Klíma wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I attach example what I'm trying to do. In short I want to save
>> binary values and I don't know how to encode them for hivex.
>> { "key": "TEST_BINARY(ABC)", "t": Type.BINARY, "value": "ABC" }, # How transform this to save it as Binary value?
> The question here doesn't really make any sense.  You can store
> anything you want in the value field (regardless of the type, although
> it's well-behaved to set it to Type.BINARY).  No transformation is
> needed, just put raw data in the string.  In particular, "ABC" is
> perfectly reasonable.
>
>> { "key": "TEST_BINARY(A5)", "t": Type.BINARY, "value": "a5" }, # How transform this to save it as Binary value?
> The same thing, but I guess perhaps you mean "how do I store the byte
> 0xa5 here?" in which case you can write "\xa5", using a standard
> Python escape sequence:
> http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ref/strings.html
>
> Basically you need to investigate what Windows is expecting in each
> field (and it differs by field and by context) and generate whatever
> happens to work on Windows.  Which is hard for a general-purpose
> graphical registry editor, but the registry is a huge technical mess,
> news at 11.
>
> Rich.
>