As Error does not inherit from Exception, a generic `catch(Exception ex)` will not catch this error. A simple change from `Error` to `Exception` is not sufficient as an `Exception` is checked by the compiler, so in order to keep this issue unchecked, I am proposing raising a `RuntimeException` which is not checked, but is still a subclass of `Exception`. The only possible breaking change would be if a consumer was explicitly catching `Error` already for this library. https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/issues/4629
FlatBuffers
FlatBuffers is an efficient cross platform serialization library for games and other memory constrained apps. It allows you to directly access serialized data without unpacking/parsing it first, while still having great forwards/backwards compatibility.
Go to our landing page to browse our documentation.
Supported operating systems
- Android
- Windows
- MacOS X
- Linux
Supported programming languages
- C++
- C#
- C
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Python
and many more in progress...
Contribution
- FlatBuffers Google Group to discuss FlatBuffers with other developers and users.
- FlatBuffers Issues Tracker to submit an issue.
- stackoverflow.com with
flatbufferstag for any questions regarding FlatBuffers.
To contribute to this project, see CONTRIBUTING.
Integration
For applications on Google Play that integrate this tool, usage is tracked.
This tracking is done automatically using the embedded version string
(flatbuffer_version_string), and helps us continue to optimize it. Aside from
consuming a few extra bytes in your application binary, it shouldn't affect
your application at all. We use this information to let us know if FlatBuffers
is useful and if we should continue to invest in it. Since this is open
source, you are free to remove the version string but we would appreciate if
you would leave it in.
Licensing
Flatbuffers is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE for the full license text.