v0.5.0

New Features

• Compiling with the preserve_order feature will use an IndexMap instead of a HashMap for compound tags, which preserves insertion order when serializing. (#54 by @samlich)

• Structs can now be explicitly told to serialize as byte/int/long arrays instead of a list under Serde by using serialize_with and the new i8_array(), i32_array(), and i64_array() functions. (#51, #52, and #53 by @Schuwi). For example:

#[derive(Serialize)]
struct MyStruct {
    #[serde(serialize_with="hematite_nbt::i8_array")]
    byte_array: Vec<i8>,
}

• Blob now has a len_bytes() method to compute the expected length when serialized, restoring functionality removed in #36. It turns out to be helpful to know the length when writing NBT payloads into network packets. (#48 by @ejmount)

• Blob now has a get() method to get values by name; previously this was only possible via indexing, which would panic if the key was absent. (#44 by @vlakreeh)

• Blob now implements Default::default(), as suggested by Clippy.

Bug Fixes and Other Improvements

• The flate2 dependency has been bumped to enable compilation for WASM. (#56 by @oOBoomberOo)

• The use of various deprecated APIs in the Rust standard library has been fixed, so consumers of this crate will no longer see build warnings. (#49 by @atheriel)

• UnrepresentableType will now correctly show the type in the error message, instead of the literal string $type. (#47 by @caelunshun)

• The benchmark suite has been rewritten to use Criterion, so it should compile with stable Rust. However, it's not clear that the black-box benchmarks are actually working properly at this time.

• The project now uses and enforces rustfmt rules.