From f5418fa6666fa2da8792b32ee6fe35f8b09bb860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Markmann <tm@ayena.de>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:19:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cbor: add API to encode non null-terminated byte strings

---
 sys/cbor/cbor.c    |  5 +++++
 sys/include/cbor.h | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys/cbor/cbor.c b/sys/cbor/cbor.c
index 55c64b6f7..ae230fbff 100644
--- a/sys/cbor/cbor.c
+++ b/sys/cbor/cbor.c
@@ -576,6 +576,11 @@ size_t cbor_serialize_byte_string(cbor_stream_t *stream, const char *val)
     return encode_bytes(CBOR_BYTES, stream, val, strlen(val));
 }
 
+size_t cbor_serialize_byte_stringl(cbor_stream_t *stream, const char *val, size_t length)
+{
+    return encode_bytes(CBOR_BYTES, stream, val, length);
+}
+
 size_t cbor_deserialize_unicode_string(const cbor_stream_t *stream, size_t offset, char *val,
                                        size_t length)
 {
diff --git a/sys/include/cbor.h b/sys/include/cbor.h
index e3c35366e..7761ac1fd 100644
--- a/sys/include/cbor.h
+++ b/sys/include/cbor.h
@@ -370,6 +370,17 @@ size_t cbor_deserialize_double(const cbor_stream_t *stream, size_t offset,
  */
 size_t cbor_serialize_byte_string(cbor_stream_t *stream, const char *val);
 
+/**
+ * @brief Serializes an arbitrary byte string
+ *
+ * @param[out] stream   The destination stream for serializing the byte stream
+ * @param[in] val       The arbitrary byte string which may include null bytes
+ * @param[in] length    The size of the byte string in bytes
+ *
+ * @return Number of bytes written to stream @p stream
+ */
+size_t cbor_serialize_byte_stringl(cbor_stream_t *stream, const char *val, size_t length);
+
 /**
  * @brief Deserialize bytes from @p stream to @p val
  *