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); } }