LibIPC: Add support for passing around ByteBuffers and HashMap<K, V>

It should be noted that using a shared buffer should still be preferred
over passing a raw ByteBuffer over the wire.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Libraries/LibIPC/Encoder.cpp b/Libraries/LibIPC/Encoder.cpp
index af93c9918e..c0eb8d670e 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibIPC/Encoder.cpp
+++ b/Libraries/LibIPC/Encoder.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  * OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  */
 
+#include <AK/ByteBuffer.h>
 #include <AK/String.h>
 #include <AK/URL.h>
 #include <LibIPC/Dictionary.h>
@@ -141,6 +142,13 @@ Encoder& Encoder::operator<<(const String& value)
     return *this << value.view();
 }
 
+Encoder& Encoder::operator<<(const ByteBuffer& value)
+{
+    *this << static_cast<i32>(value.size());
+    m_buffer.append(value.data(), value.size());
+    return *this;
+}
+
 Encoder& Encoder::operator<<(const URL& value)
 {
     return *this << value.to_string();