protozero: Upgrading

protozero 1.8.0 Minimalistic protocol buffer decoder and encoder in C++.

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Upgrading

This file contains instructions for users of Protozero who are upgrading from one version to another.

You do not need to change anything if only the minor version changes, but it is better to keep up with changes if you can. The switch to the next major version will be easier then. And you might get some more convenient usage.

To help you with upgrading to new versions, you can define the C++ preprocessor macro `PROTOZERO_STRICT_API` in which case Protozero will compile without the code used for backwards compatibilty. You will then get compile errors for older API usages.

# Upgrading from v1.6 to v1.7

- The `pbf_writer` class is now a typedef for `basic_pbf_writer<std::string>` If you have forward declared it in your code, it might have to change.

# Upgrading from v1.5 to v1.6.0

- The `data_view` class moved from `types.hpp` into its own header file `data_view.hpp`. Most people should not include those headers directly, but if you do, you might have to change your includes.
- There are two new exceptions `invalid_tag_exception` and `invalid_length_exception` which cover cases that were only checked by `assert` before this version. If you catch specific exceptions in your code you might have to amend it. But just catching `protozero::exception` is usually fine for most code (if you catch exceptions at all).
- The `pbf_reader` constructor taking a `std::pair` is now deprecated. If you are compiling with `PROTOZERO_STRICT_API` it is not available any more. Use one of the other constructors instead.

# Upgrading from v1.4.5 to v1.5.0

- New functions for checking tag and type at the same time to make your program more robust. Read the section "Repeated fields in messages" in the new Advanced Topics documentation.

# Upgrading from v1.4.4 to v1.4.5

- The macro `PROTOZERO_DO_NOT_USE_BARE_POINTER` is not used any more. If you have been setting this, remove it.

# Upgrading from v1.4.0 to v1.4.1

- You can now do ‘require('protozero’)` in nodejs to print the path to the include paths for the protozero headers.

# Upgrading from v1.3.0 to v1.4.0

- Functions in `pbf_reader` (and the derived `pbf_message`) called `get_packed_*()` now return an `iterator_range` instead of a `std::pair`. The new class is derived from `std::pair`, so changes are usually not strictly necessary. For future compatibility, you should change all attribute accesses on the returned objects from `first` and `second` to `begin()` and `end()`, respectively. So change something like this:

      auto x = message.get_packed_int32();
      for (auto it = x.first; it != x.second; ++it) {
          ....
      }

  to:

      auto x = message.get_packed_int32();
      for (auto it = x.begin(); it != x.end(); ++it) {
          ....
      }

  or even better use the range-based for loop:

      auto x = message.get_packed_int32();
      for (auto val : x) {
          ....
      }

  Ranges can also be used in this way. This will change the range in-place:

      auto range = message.get_packed_int32();
      while (!range.empty()) {
          auto value = range.front();
          range.drop_front();
          ....
      }

- The class `pbf_reader` has a new method `get_view()` returning an object of the new `protozero::data_view` class. The `data_view` only has minimal functionality, but what it has is compatible to the `std::string_view` class which will be coming in C++17. The view autoconverts to a `std::string` if needed. Use `get_view()` instead of `get_data()` giving you a more intuitive interface (call `data()` and `size()` on the view instead of using `first` and `second` on the `std::pair` returned by `get_data()`).

  You can set the macro `PROTOZERO_USE_VIEW` (before including `types.hpp`) to the name of any class that behaves like `protozero::data_view` and `data_view` will be an alias to that class instead of the implementation from protozero. This way you can use the C++17 `string_view` or a similar class if it is already available on your system.