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Buffered Package

The Buffered package provides two classes, Writer and Reader, for writing and reading messages using common encodings. These classes are useful when dealing with things like network data and binary file formats.

Example program

use "buffered"

actor Main
  new create(env: Env) =>
    let reader = Reader
    let writer = Writer

    writer.u32_be(42)
    writer.f32_be(3.14)

    let b = recover iso Array[U8] end

    for chunk in writer.done().values() do
      b.append(chunk)
    end

    reader.append(consume b)

    try
      env.out.print(reader.u32_be()?.string()) // prints 42
      env.out.print(reader.f32_be()?.string()) // prints 3.14
    end

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