When `HashTable` was told to replace an object with itself, it ended up
incrementing its reference count because of the legacy equality check
(previously `FreeSelf()` completely deallocated an object, so the check
was warranted).
Previously `Iter` was meant to be a collection iterator class, but now
we need a more generalized notion of iterator, so we move some
collection-specific methods out and designate `Iter` a general iterator
class, while `CollectionIterator` takes its former place.
`RemoveItem()` method for `AssociativeArray()` is now able to deallocate
keys. `Empty()` method is now defined in a `Collectino` class and allows
users to recursively free nested collections, while deallocating their
keys.
Now Acedia collections provide functionality of `Get...ByPointer()`
method (that allows to fetch values nested into several collection by
JSON pointers) for both `JSONPointer` and `Text` classes.
Previously, each use of `Get...ByPointer()` method caused convertion of
a `Text` into `JSONPointer`, even if used `Text` value did not change.
This patch allows to create `JSONPointer` once and them use that as a
parameter, which should be much faster.
`AssociativeArray` by design does not manage keys, automatically
deallocating them, like it can with stored values. This patch adds a
parameter to `Empty()` method that allows it to deallocate all of the
used keys when deallocation all of the values.
As a side effect this patch also fixes a bug that broke
`AssociativeArray` after using `Empty()` method.
Now all objects only have to calculate their hash code once and it's
value will be stored for later `GetHashCode()` calls, since has code is
not suppoed to change during their lifetime anyway.
This is a giga commit, something that should not really be done with
git, but I messed up.
This commit brings a great amount of changes, most important is
reworking `TextAPI` and alsmost complete replacement of `string` with
`Text`/`MutableText`.
Another huge change is introduction of command system that allows to
define commands in a centralized manner, handles auto-parsing of
their parameters and auto generates help info.
Lastly, JSON data types were replaced with new
`DynamicArray`/`AssociativeArray` that are better designed and more
generic.
Anton Tarasenko