From e9b50ce6f1c47204cea503907aa24ad5b570287e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillermo Rodriguez <guillermo@telos.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:48:38 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add bytes from Array<number> to serializer & fix old proto
 spec comment

---
 package.json    |  2 +-
 src/protocol.ts | 13 ++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index dda0724..f707a49 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@guilledk/arrowbatch-nodejs",
-  "version": "1.0.0-rc3",
+  "version": "1.0.0-rc4",
   "description": "Arrow Batch Storage protocol",
   "main": "./build/index.js",
   "type": "module",
diff --git a/src/protocol.ts b/src/protocol.ts
index 8f904c8..818307f 100644
--- a/src/protocol.ts
+++ b/src/protocol.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export class ArrowBatchProtocol {
      *
      * file map:
      *
-     *     global header: version constant + batch size (uint64) + total batch count (uint64)
+     *     global header: version constant
      *
      *     batch #0 header: batch header constant + batch byte size (uint64) + compression (uint8)
      *     arrow random access file bytes...
@@ -256,10 +256,11 @@ const validationFunctions = {
         return false;
     },
 
-    bytes:  (value: any) => {
+    bytes: (value: any) => {
         return typeof value === 'string' ||
             value instanceof Uint8Array ||
-            value instanceof Buffer;
+            value instanceof Buffer ||
+            (Array.isArray(value) && value.every(num => typeof num === 'number' && num >= 0 && num <= 255));
     },
     string: (value: any) => typeof value === 'string',
     checksum160: (value: any) => {
@@ -329,9 +330,11 @@ const encodeFunctions = {
                 value = value.substring(2);
             typedValue = Buffer.from(value, 'hex');
             valByteLength /= 2;
-
-        } else if (value instanceof Uint8Array)
+        } else if (value instanceof Uint8Array) {
             typedValue = Buffer.from(value);
+        } else if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+            typedValue = Buffer.from(value);
+        }
 
         if (fieldInfo.length && valByteLength != fieldInfo.length)
             throw new Error(