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i spent a few minutes looking into it again, and remembered what i really found frustrating - it's all a weird mix of JSON, and byte arrays. some functions want json, and some functions want json encoded as a byte array. and some of the items in the json structure are supposed to be byte arrays?

it seems like they've gone out of their way to make it purposefully difficult to communicate between the client and the server. there's client examples to follow, and server examples to follow, but getting something between the two of them is a mystery. json doesn't have a byte array type, so making an api that depends on byte arrays in json seems needlessly obtuse. it's a standard that doesn't work without client-server communication, and it hasn't bothered to define a client-server communication method or use a datatype that can be natively communicated to the server?