I have just passed stage 7, however I didn’t expect too since I didn’t actually implement the compression stuff.
The instructions suggest that the request I get should contain a normal question, and a question with compressed name elements.
Here is what the tester will send you:
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Header |
|---|
| Question 1 (un-compressed label sequence) |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Question 2 (compressed label sequence) |
| ------------------------------------------ |
My code was written from the beginning to handle encoding/decoding from /to byte arrays or vecs and I work with structs. So when I extended to handle adding an answer per question I expected the second to fail parsing.
This has ultimately caused me to have issues in the final stage where a question with a compressed name was recieved. It’s been a frustrating day!
(this is more feedback than a cry for help, i’ll fix my code later )