7.8.0

FlatSharp 7.8.0 contains a small number of new features and bugfixes thanks to @sssooonnnggg and @trumully! Thank you for the contributions!

Features

• Unions can how have manually set discriminator values, ie union MyUnion { str : string = 3, MyTable = 6 }
• Using the <FlatSharpGenerateMethods>true</FlatSharpGenerateMethods> in your .csproj file now allows generating .ToString() methods on certain FlatSharp objects. More in the future!
• Builds targeting .NET 9 (no .NET 9 features used yet)

Fixes

• Fix an issue where \ and " characters were not escaped when present in a FlatBuffer attribute value.

Other Changes

• Removal of the FlatSharp object pooling experimental feature.

What's Changed

• Fix pipelines by @jamescourtney in #446
• chore: create output directory if not exists by @sssooonnnggg in #444
• fix: emit attribute with escaped quote and backslash by @sssooonnnggg in #445
• fix: fixed union generator when processing union with custom enum value by @sssooonnnggg in #447
• Add net 9 by @jamescourtney in #449
• Remove Object Pooling by @jamescourtney in #450
• Add ToString methods by @trumully in #437

New Contributors

• @sssooonnnggg made their first contribution in #444

Full Changelog: 7.7.0...7.8.0