void IMySqlValue.WriteValue(MySqlStream stream, bool binary, object val, int length) {
byte[] bytes = null;
if (val is byte[]) {
bytes = (byte[])val;
} else if (val is char[]) {
bytes = stream.Encoding.GetBytes(val as char[]);
} else {
string s = val.ToString();
if (length == 0) {
length = s.Length;
} else {
s = s.Substring(0, length);
}
bytes = stream.Encoding.GetBytes(s);
}
if (length == 0) {
length = bytes.Length;
}
if (bytes == null) {
throw new MySqlException("Only byte arrays and strings can be serialized by MySqlBinary");
}
if (binary) {
stream.WriteLength((long)length);
stream.Write(bytes, 0, length);
} else {
if (stream.Version.isAtLeast(4, 1, 0)) {
stream.WriteStringNoNull("_binary ");
}
stream.WriteByte(0x27);
this.EscapeByteArray(bytes, length, stream);
stream.WriteByte(0x27);
}
}