The format is quite simply the type index followed by the type in its
own native encoding; just implementing the receive side with static
typing is a bit convoluted. The only limitation of this implementation
is that the variant type has to contain an Empty somewhere as it is not
default constructible otherwise.
Co-authored-by: Ali Mohammad Pur <mpfard@serenityos.org>
This will make it easier to support both string types at the same time
while we convert code, and tracking down remaining uses.
One big exception is Value::to_string() in LibJS, where the name is
dictated by the ToString AO.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
In order to avoid the base encode/decode methods from being used (and
failing a static assertion), we must be sure to declare/define the
custom type implementations as template specializations.
After this, LibIPC is no longer sensitive to include order.
This commit moves the length calculations out to be directly on the
StringView users. This is an important step towards the goal of removing
StringView(char const*), as it moves the responsibility of calculating
the size of the string to the user of the StringView (which will prevent
naive uses causing OOB access).
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
