How to take receipt of an 8-bit string?

[drauschenbach]

I'm trying to take receipt of a LuaSocket style of binary string (buffer), but can't find a way to avoid utf8 parsing. It looks like FromLua wants my Vec<u8> receiver to only be able to receive a value from a Lua table. I can't use a table to hold my 8-bit data, because I'm writing an API that must be 100% LuaSocket compatible.

Since all Lua strings are supposed to support 8-bit, maybe conversion.rs needs a tweak or two?

[khvzak]

If you want to receive bytes (binary string) you can use LuaString directly or try bstr::BString type.
LuaString has ‘as_bytes’ method to get a slice of raw bytes

[drauschenbach]

Works! I can take receipt into a bstr::String.