Datastructures

This library contains a set of useful implementations that can be used in multiple different projects.

• 1. Features
  • 1.1. CRC Algorithms
  • 1.2. Bit Operations
  • 1.3. IDeepClonable
  • 1.4. Result
  • 1.5. Semantic Versioning
  • 1.6. INamedItem and NamedItemCollection
  • 1.7. EventLog
• 2. Release History
  • 2.1. Version 0.2.1
  • 2.2. Version 0.2.0

1. Features

1.1. CRC Algorithms

Provides various values for CRC16 and CRC32 algorithms. It can use precomputed tables, or algorithms where the user provides the polynomials, seeds and any inversions.

See Benchmarks for performance metrics.

1.2. Bit Operations

Support for converting byte buffers into short, ushort, int, uint, long, ulong, big endian or little endian. Newer .NET Core versions bring similar algorithms. The implementation provides unsafe (with faster performance).

See Benchmarks for performance metrics.

1.3. IDeepClonable

Provide an interface that implies an object is deep clonable (as opposed to the standard .NET MemberwiseClone which is a shallow clone).

1.4. Result

The Result is an interesting datatype that takes inspiration from modern C++20 and Rust, where a result is not a value type, and one normally encodes errors as either null or -1, but now one can encode an error, or the correct value, directly in to the result of a function call.

When defining a function return a Result<int> for example, the function can just return the value, as it would if the return type would be an int. If an exception occurs, the exception would be returned with FromException.

public Result<int> GetValue(bool isError) {
    if (isError)
        return Result.FromException<int>(new InvalidArgumentException("there's an error"));
    return 42;
}

var r = GetValue(false);
if (!r.HasValue)
    Console.WriteLine($"Error - {r.Error?.Message}");
else
    Console.WriteLine($"Value = {r.Value}");

if (!r.TryGet(out int v)))
    Console.WriteLine($"Error - {r.Error?.Message}");
else
    Console.WriteLine($"Value = {v}");

1.5. Semantic Versioning

Use SemVer or SemVer2 to manage versions using Semantic Versioning rules. Version comparisons can be made, and additional version information can be added.

1.6. INamedItem and NamedItemCollection

A collection of objects deriving from INamedItem. Derive from Collections.Generic.NamedItemCollection to handle a collection of objects with a name.

1.7. EventLog

Manage an event log, that events can be written as they occur, so typically, a user interface will be notified of events and can update its controls accordingly. It implements an IList<IEvent<T>>, INotifyCollectionChanged.

It can help by maintaining the maximum severity that is logged, such that actions can be performed if an error or a critical event was logged.

2. Release History

2.1. Version 0.2.1

Bugfixes:

• Exceptions now throw stack trace information on .NET Framework and .NET 6.0 (DOTNET-867)

Quality:

• Add README.md reference to NuGet package (DOTNET-811)
• Apply SemVer fixes for CA1861 (DOTNET-833)
• Update .NET 4.5 to 4.6.2 (DOTNET-827, DOTNET-906) and .NET Standard 2.1 to .NET 6.0 (DOTNET-936, DOTNET-941, DOTNET-942, DOTNET-945)
• Apply aggressive inlining for .NET Framework 4.6.2 (DOTNET-871)

2.2. Version 0.2.0

• Initial Version