3 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/primitive/bufferinfo.rs b/src/primitive/bufferinfo.rs
index 1c4e206..24080cb 100644
--- a/src/primitive/bufferinfo.rs
+++ b/src/primitive/bufferinfo.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ impl Deserialize for BufferInfo {
 
         // There are 4 additional undocumented Bytes in the BufferInfo
         // so we start at byte 14
+        // TODO is groupid
         let (size, name) = String::parse_utf8(&b[14..])?;
 
         return Ok((
diff --git a/src/primitive/string.rs b/src/primitive/string.rs
index 590c529..7ea838d 100644
--- a/src/primitive/string.rs
+++ b/src/primitive/string.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ use log::trace;
 use crate::util;
 use crate::{Deserialize, DeserializeUTF8, Serialize, SerializeUTF8};
 
+pub type ByteArray = String;
+
 /// We Shadow the String type here as we can only use impl on types in our own scope.
 ///
 /// Strings are serialized as an i32 for the length in bytes, then the chars represented in UTF-16 in bytes.
diff --git a/src/primitive/variant.rs b/src/primitive/variant.rs
index e9e032e..8a98d59 100644
--- a/src/primitive/variant.rs
+++ b/src/primitive/variant.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ use crate::{Serialize, SerializeUTF8};
 
 use crate::primitive::{BufferInfo, Date, DateTime, Message, Time, VariantList, VariantMap};
 
+use libquassel_derive::From;
+
 /// Variant represents the possible types we can receive
 ///
 /// Variant's are serizalized as the Type as a i32 and then the Type in it's own format
@@ -21,9 +23,10 @@ use crate::primitive::{BufferInfo, Date, DateTime, Message, Time, VariantList, V
 ///
 /// ByteArray is de-/serialized as a C ByteArray.
 #[allow(non_camel_case_types, dead_code)]
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, std::cmp::PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, From)]
 pub enum Variant {
     Unknown,
+    #[from(ignore)]
     UserType(String, Vec<u8>),
     BufferInfo(BufferInfo),
     Message(Message),
@@ -33,6 +36,7 @@ pub enum Variant {
     VariantMap(VariantMap),
     VariantList(VariantList),
     String(String),
+    #[from(ignore)]
     ByteArray(String),
     StringList(StringList),
     bool(bool),