Why does OBJECT_DATAGRAM have a length?

[afrind]

In previous drafts, the payload ran to the end of the transport datagram. This length adds 1 or 2 bytes, and creates error conditions.

[ianswett]

I believe this was an error, and not intentional?

[afrind]

The current function of length is that if it is 0, then Status is present and payload is not, which is also how it works in streams. So there's a tradeoff of having it be similar to other object encodings, vs not having a length and accomplishing the flag behavior a different way.

[fluffy]

@suhasHere thoughts ????

[fluffy]

Seems like it might have just been oversight to add this.