[LV2] Mapping of OSC to LV2 Atoms

[Hanspeter Portner]

On 16.10.2015 01:41, Spencer Jackson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:17 PM, David Robillard <d at drobilla.net
> <mailto:d at drobilla.net>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     How do you propose "/foo tf" be represented as an atom?
> 
> 
> 
> As Proposed by Hanspeter:
>>LV2_Atom_Object (object.otype=LV2_OSC__Message)
>>  key=LV2_OSC__messagePath (value.type=LV2_Atom_String)
>>  key=LV2_OSC__messageFormat (value.type=LV2_Atom_String)
>>  key=LV2_OSC__messageArguments (value.type=LV2_Atom_Tuple)
> 
> LV2_OSC__messagePath = "/foo"
> LV2_OSC__messageFormat = "tf"
> LV2_OSC__messageArguments would either be an empty tuple or omitted I
> suppose.
> 
> The idea is more to encapsulate the OSC message rather than just
> represent that same data as atoms. If I understand correctly, that is.
> _Spencer
> 

I guess you both meant "/foo TF", right?

I've added the format string out of necessity, to be able to
discriminate between OSC types 'h'/'t', 's'/'S' and 'c'/'i' with the
currently available Atom types.

If we can do without format string, but without loosing any information,
that's fine, too.