0.5.0

Warning

This extension is still under development. I don't recommend depending on it for production usage.

Also, please note that the API may still change again before the 1.0.0 release.

Changes since 0.4.1

• Introduced array-of-type encoder and decoder functions for short, int, long, double and float types (BE, LE and Varint). These functions are 2-4x faster than encoding/decoding single elements with loops. Needless to say, they're also significantly faster than legacy code using BinaryStream.
• ByteBuffer has been split into ByteBufferReader and ByteBufferWriter parts.
  • ByteBufferReader requires a string in the constructor and puts its offset at the start.
  • ByteBufferWriter does not require anything (but can be given a starting string) and puts its offset at the end.
• Increased test coverage to verify symmetry of all encode/decode methods
• VarInts are now tested against known binary values to ensure parity with pocketmine/binaryutils
• Added BE and LE methods for UnsignedLong. Note that these still technically return signed longs, since PHP doesn't have an unsigned type; however, these allow code to be more self-documenting when e.g. implementing a protocol.