From fadfda353d623f192c70cdb4e16bc8c31ccae9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Frazee <pfrazee@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:47:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add buffer-transfer support to muxrpc-ipc

---
 app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js b/app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js
index 0c56d50..7c7e573 100644
--- a/app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js
+++ b/app/lib/muxrpc-ipc.js
@@ -22,11 +22,23 @@ module.exports = function (window, sbot, params) {
   var rpcStream = rpc.createStream()
   var ipcPush = pushable()
   ipc.on('muxrpc-ssb', function (e, msg) {
-    if (e.sender == window.webContents)
+    if (e.sender == window.webContents) {
+      if (msg.bvalue) {
+        msg.value = new Buffer(msg.bvalue, 'base64')
+        delete msg.bvalue
+      }
       ipcPush.push(msg)
+    }
   })
   pull(ipcPush, rpcStream, pull.drain(
-    function (msg) { window.webContents.send('muxrpc-ssb', msg) },
+    function (msg) { 
+      if (msg.value && Buffer.isBuffer(msg.value)) {
+        // convert buffers to base64
+        msg.bvalue = msg.value.toString('base64')
+        delete msg.value
+      }
+      window.webContents.send('muxrpc-ssb', msg)
+    },
     function (err) { if (err) { console.error(err) } }
   ))