/**
* Marshall a QTI File datatype into a binary string. The resulting binary string constitution
* is the following:
*
* * The length of the file name, unsigned short.
* * The file name, string.
* * The length of the mime type, unsigned short.
* * The mime type, string.
* * The binary content of the file, string.
*
* @param File $file
* @return string
*/
public static function qtiFileToString(QtiFile $file)
{
$string = '';
$filename = $file->getFilename();
$mimetype = $file->getMimeType();
$filenameLen = strlen($filename);
$mimetypeLen = strlen($mimetype);
$string .= pack('S', $filenameLen);
$string .= $filename;
$string .= pack('S', $mimetypeLen);
$string .= $mimetype;
// Avoid invalid data for serialize
// (This could make me cry...)
$string .= $file->getData();
return $string;
}
/**
* Marshall a QTI file datatype into its PCI JSON Representation.
*
* @param \qtism\common\datatypes\File $file
* @return array
*/
protected function marshallFile(QtiFile $file)
{
$data = array('base' => array('file' => array('mime' => $file->getMimeType(), 'data' => base64_encode($file->getData()))));
if ($file->hasFilename() === true) {
$data['base']['file']['name'] = $file->getFilename();
}
return $data;
}
