[Nexus-developers] data type for binary data

[Eugen Wintersberger]

Hi folks
  I am actually implementing the binary field type for my C++ API. 
According to the Nexus documentation binary data is stored as UInt8 
which has historical reasons. 
HDF5 provides now an opaque data type which indicates already on HDF5
level that the data is uninterpreted binary. Thus I would rather use 
this data type than UInt8. 
Is this ok according to Nexus or shall I use UInt8 for backward
compatibility?

regards
   Eugen