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list manipulation - How to convert a RawArray of bytes to ByteArray?


A ByteArray can be converted to a RawArray:



ba = ByteArray[{1, 2, 3, 4}]
(* ByteArray[{1, 2, 3, 4}] *)

ra = RawArray["Byte", ba]
(* RawArray["UnsignedInteger8",{1, 2, 3, 4}] *)

Normal[ra]
(* {1, 2, 3, 4} *)

Presumably, this is done without unpacking the ByteArray contents to 64-bit integers first (although I have no proof of this).



Is there a similar space-efficient way to convert a rank-1 byte-type RawArray to a ByteArray?



Answer



At present there is no way to do this from top level, since there is no interface to the internal function that converts a rank-1 RawArray of bytes into a ByteArray.


However, as already pointed out, it's possible to take advantage of LibraryLink which will do a conversion given an MRawArray on the C side and a "ByteArray" return type, for example


Needs["CCompilerDriver`"]

src = "
  #include \"WolframLibrary.h\"
  #include \"WolframRawArrayLibrary.h\"


  DLLEXPORT mint WolframLibrary_getVersion() {
    return WolframLibraryVersion;
  }

  DLLEXPORT int WolframLibrary_initialize( WolframLibraryData libData) {
    return 0;
  }

  DLLEXPORT void WolframLibrary_uninitialize( WolframLibraryData libData) {
    return;

  }

  DLLEXPORT int mrawarray_to_bytearray( WolframLibraryData libData, 
    mint Argc, MArgument *Args, MArgument Res) {

    WolframRawArrayLibrary_Functions rawFuns = libData->rawarrayLibraryFunctions;
    MRawArray ra;
    mint rank;
    rawarray_t type;


    if (Argc != 1) return LIBRARY_FUNCTION_ERROR;
    ra = MArgument_getMRawArray(Args[0]);

    type = rawFuns->MRawArray_getType(ra);
    rank = rawFuns->MRawArray_getRank(ra);

    if (rank == 1 && type == MRawArray_Type_Ubit8) {
      MArgument_setMRawArray(Res, ra);
      return LIBRARY_NO_ERROR;
    } 

    return LIBRARY_FUNCTION_ERROR;

  }";

lib = CreateLibrary[src, "toByteArray"];

toByteArray = LibraryFunctionLoad[lib, 
  "mrawarray_to_bytearray", {"RawArray"}, "ByteArray"];

toByteArray[RawArray["Byte", {1, 2, 3, 4}]]


(* ByteArray["AQIDBA=="] *)

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