5.0.0

What's Changed

• BREAKING: Main API changed. No need to create separate definition and parser objects any more. Create only a
  definition from your XTCE document and instead of my_parser.generator, use my_packet_definition.packet_generator.
• BREAKING: Removed CSV-based packet definition support. We may indirectly support this in the future via
  a utility for converting CSV definitions to XTCE.
• BREAKING: Separated out logical pieces into separate modules rather than everything
  living within the xtcedef module. This means user imports may be different now.
• BREAKING: Replace bitstring objects with native Python bytes objects
  • Remove dependency on the bitstring library
  • Much faster parsing speed
  • Users that are passing bitstring.ConstBitStream objects to generator will need to pass a
    binary filelike object instead
• BREAKING: The ParsedDataItem class has been removed and the derived values are being returned now.
  The raw_value is stored as an attribute on the returned object. The other items can be accessed
  through the packet definition object my_packet_definition.named_parameters["my_item"].short_description
• BREAKING: The return type of BinaryDataEncoding is now the raw bytes.
  To get the previous behavior you can convert the data to an integer and then format it as a binary string.
  f"{int.from_bytes(data, byteorder='big'):0{len(data)*8}b}"
• BREAKING: Removed word_size kwarg from packet generator method.
  We expect all binary data to be integer number of bytes.
• BREAKING: Changed packet_generator kwarg skip_header_bits to skip_header_bytes.
• Fixed incorrect parsing of StringDataEncoding elements. Raw string values are now returned as byte buffers.
  Derived string values contain python string objects.
• The CCSDSPacket class is now a dictionary subclass, enabling direct lookup of items from the Packet itself.
• A RawPacketData class has been added that is a subclass of bytes. It keeps track of the current
  parsing location and enables reading of bit lengths as integers or raw bytes.
• Fix EnumeratedParameterType to handle duplicate labels
• Add error reporting for unsupported and invalid parameter types
• Add support for MIL-1750A floats (32-bit only)

New Contributors

• @laspsandoval made their first contribution in #50
• @cgobat made their first contribution in #18

Full Changelog: 4.2.0...5.0.0