Version 2 (#122)

New from the ground up object based implementation in stead of parsing of type strings, which improves performance, flexibility and readability.

.github/workflows/unittests.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ name: Run unit tests
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [master, develop, v1.0, v0.11]
+    branches: [master, develop, v1.0, v2]
   pull_request:
     # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
-    branches: [master, develop, v1.0, v0.11]
+    branches: [master, develop, v1.0, v2]
 
 jobs:
   build:

README.md

@@ -18,6 +18,32 @@ https://polkascan.github.io/py-scale-codec/
 pip install scalecodec
 ```
 
+## Code examples
+
+```python
+from scalecodec.types import ScaleBytes, Bool, String, U32, U8, U16, Struct, Vec, Compact, Tuple, Enum
+
+# encode a Vec<u16>
+obj = Vec(U16).new()
+value = [1, 2]
+data = obj.encode(value)
+
+# Define and decode a Struct
+scale_obj = Struct(test=U8, test2=Tuple(U8, U8)).new()
+value = scale_obj.decode(ScaleBytes("0x020105"))
+
+# Define and encode an Enum
+scale_obj = Enum(
+    Bool=Bool(), 
+    Number=U32, 
+    Complex=Struct(data=String(), version=Compact(U8)), 
+    None_=None
+).new()
+value = {'Bool': True}
+
+data = scale_obj.encode(value)
+```
+
 ## Examples of different types
 
 | Type                                                                         | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Example SCALE decoding value                                                | SCALE encoded value                                                             |

pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "scalecodec"
+description = "Python SCALE Codec Library"
+readme = "README.md"
+
+authors = [
+    { name = "Polkascan Foundation", email = "info@polkascan.org" }
+]
+
+requires-python = ">=3.6, <4"
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
+]
+keywords = ["scale", "codec", "polkascan", "polkadot", "substrate", "blockchain", "kusama"]
+
+dynamic = ["dependencies", "version"]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+dev = [
+    "coverage==5.3",
+    "pytest>=6.1.2",
+    "mkdocs",
+    "mkdocs-material",
+    "mkdocs-autorefs",
+    "mkdocstrings",
+    "mkdocstrings[python]"
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/polkascan/py-scale-codec"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["."]
+exclude = ["contrib", "docs", "tests", "test"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+"scalecodec.type_registry" = ["*.json"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.dynamic]
+version = {attr = "scalecodec.__version__"}
+dependencies = {file = ["requirements.txt"]}

requirements.txt

@@ -1,15 +1,3 @@
-base58==2.0.1
-atomicwrites~=1.4.0
-attrs~=20.3.0
-coverage==5.3
-more-itertools~=8.6.0
-pluggy==0.13.1
-pytest>=6.1.2
+base58>=2.0.1
+more-itertools>=8.6.0
 requests>=2.24.0
-six==1.15.0
-
-mkdocs
-mkdocs-material
-mkdocs-autorefs
-mkdocstrings
-mkdocstrings[python]

scalecodec/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Python SCALE Codec Library
 #
-# Copyright 2018-2020 Stichting Polkascan (Polkascan Foundation).
+# Copyright 2018-2024 Stichting Polkascan (Polkascan Foundation).
 #
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -14,5 +14,9 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-# Import all type to make sure types classes are registered when RuntimeConfiguration inits.
-from .types import *
+import os
+
+if os.getenv('GITHUB_REF') and os.getenv('GITHUB_REF').startswith('refs/tags/v'):
+    __version__ = os.getenv('GITHUB_REF').replace('refs/tags/v', '')
+else:
+    __version__ = '2.0.0-dev1'