why &[u8] use TextEncoder ? can't pass binary ... about deno_bindgen

[usrtax]

when I delete encode, the error is error: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Invalid FFI pointer type, expected null, integer or BigInt

+ deno run --unstable -A test.js
Uint8Array(223418) [
  137,  80,  78,  71,  13,  10,  26,  10,  0,   0,   0,  13,  73,  72,  68,
   82,   0,   0,   3,  32,   0,   0,   3, 32,   8,   6,   0,   0,   0, 219,
  112,   6, 104,   0,   3, 104, 129,  73, 68,  65,  84, 120, 156, 236, 253,
  125, 172,  37, 231, 125, 223,   9, 214, 83,  85, 247, 165,  95, 216, 162,
  152,  38,  77, 133, 140,  68, 135, 132, 69, 209, 145,  32, 197,  14, 163,
  216, 227,  73,  35, 241, 174,  55,  26,  5, 144,  98, 216, 142, 227, 137,
  200, 205, 219, 172, 181,  99, 197, 246, 96, 118,
  ... 223318 more items
] 223418
error: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Invalid FFI pointer type, expected null, integer or BigInt
  let rawResult = _lib.symbols.toWebp(a0, a0.byteLength, a1)

[littledivy]

It's not TextEncoder, encode function returns back the input its a TypedArray

[skanehira]

@usrtax
deno_bindgen cannot return binary data which included by structs because struct is always convert to the JavaScript's Object through JSON.parse

I think If you want to return binary, you have two choice.

1. Return TypeArray only.
2. Use base64 for encode binary to String, and decode string to bytes in Deno.

https://github.com/skanehira/deno-clippy/blob/b4b5eabc82964bf97a00394b31f86190923e2482/mod.ts#L38-L50

https://github.com/skanehira/deno-clippy/blob/b4b5eabc82964bf97a00394b31f86190923e2482/src/lib.rs#L15-L26