3.1.0 Release

A new version is available:

• Feature: typing.Self can be used as a serializable type-hint, if Self is a Structured derived class.
• Feature: char[math.inf] and unicode[math.inf] can be used to consume all remaining bytes in a stream. These must be the final serializable type-hint in a class.
• Feature: Conditional serialization: including Condition(condition_fn, default_value) in an Annotated[...] for a serializable typehint can be used to control whether an attribute is packed/unpacked or not. Useful for defining multiple versions of a data structured with a single class.
• Bugfix: array can handle 0-length arrays of simple serializable types now (it could always handle complex types, simple types not supporting this was a bug).
• Bugfix: SerializeAs now works properly when using non-default ByteOrder.

3.0.0 Release

New update with new features:

• tuples
• unions
• replaced Formatted with SerializeAs
• Full support for Python 3.11, unofficial support for Python 3.12

Plus lots of background code cleanup, and some slight performance improvements.

Deprecated features removed:

• using serialized to configure type-hints. All additional configuration is via typing.Annotated

Install via source, or from pip:
pip install structured-classes

2.0.2 release

Wrapping up all the recent improvments on main.

Biggest new features include:

• Complex data types for packing/unpacking: variable length bytes, automatically decoded strings (unicode type), and arrays of formatted or Structured types (array type).
• Generics in Structured classes.