[Port]: Pharo 10 - Missing String>>#convertForWithConverter:

[seandenigris]

Asked on Pharo Discord:

What is the replacement for String>>#convertForWithConverter:, which has been removed in P10? Soup was using it and I'm not sure how to translate to the new Zn-based encoders. Naively, I tried just restoring the method in P10, but:

aByteString convertFromWithConverter: aZnSimplifiedEncoder "latin1 strict"

led to the error pictured...

cc/ @svenvc

[seandenigris]

Per @svenvc on Discord:

This is old misuse of Strings to store encoded bytes. The replacement would then be something like:

aByteString asByteArray decodeWith: #utf8

Of course, decoding will only work if the source is encoded the way you expect it to be. Plus the ZnCharacterEncoders are normally stricter (but can be relaxed).

Hence, the offending line can be replaced with:

converter decodeBytes: xmlData asByteArray