Network Protocol: DREFs with result lengths greater than 255 byte can not be read

[rthaenert]

Hi,

in X-Plane 11 there are a couple of Datarefs which return byte arrays greater than 255 bytes:

• sim/aircraft/view/acf_author
• sim/operation/failures/failures

If I request such a DREF with the Matlab or Java Client the following Exception is raised (due to the size of the result being incorrect in the response packet).

java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException: -1

	at gov.nasa.xpc.XPlaneConnect.getDREFs(XPlaneConnect.java:311)

Issue #45 already notices the 1 byte limitation but as far as I understood having one dataref result greater than 1 byte was not considered.

[jason-watkins]

Hi Ralf,

I don't even own a copy of X-Plane 11 yet, so I haven't done any testing with it at all. I'm slowly working towards introducing a new, more flexible network protocol that will remove arbitrary limits like this.

Thanks for the report, and I'll leave this open until I have a working build that resolves this.