Universal.Common 8.3.2

Universal.Common

Support utilities and extensions meant to extend the default functionality from the base class library.

Classes

BinaryReader

Endianness-aware implementation of System.IO.BinaryReader, allowing to read primitive types from a stream in big-endian or little-endian byte order.

using (var stream = new FileStream("file.bin", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    // Create a BinaryReader with big-endian byte order
    using (var reader = new BinaryReader(stream, Endian.Big))
    {
        // Read an Int32 in big-endian order
        int value = reader.ReadInt32();
    }
}

BinaryWriter

Endianness-aware implementation of System.IO.BinaryWriter, allowing to write primitive types to a stream in big-endian or little-endian byte order.

using (var stream = new FileStream("file.bin", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
{
    // Create a BinaryWriter with big-endian byte order
    using (var writer = new BinaryWriter(stream, Endian.Big))
    {
        // Write an Int32 in big-endian order
        writer.Write(1234567890);
    }
}

BitSequence

Utility for as-is bit manipulations.

BitSequence bs1 = new BitSequence("10001010"); // Binary representation in string.
BitSequence bs2 = new BitSequence(new bool[] { true, false, true }); // As booleans.
BitSequence bs3 = bs1 & "11110000"; // Bitwise and, implicit conversion from binary representation string.

BitStream

Utility to perform bit-level operations on System.IO.Stream.

using (BitStream bitStream = new BitStream(stream)) 
{
    uint value = bitStream.ReadUInt32(4); // Reads 4 bits from the stream and interprets it as an unsigned integer, padding if necessary.
}

MediaType

Represents MIME types and provides functionality for working with media types in various contexts.

Constructor

MediaType mediaType = new MediaType("application/json");

MediaType Detection

The MediaType class provides several static methods to create MediaType instances from different sources:

1. FromExtension

MediaType mediaType = MediaType.FromExtension(".json");
// Returns a MediaType instance for "application/json"

Creates a MediaType instance based on a file extension (with or without the leading dot).

2. FromByteArray

byte[] fileBytes = File.ReadAllBytes("sample.png");
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.FromByteArray(fileBytes);
// Returns a MediaType instance for "image/png"

Detects the media type based on the file signature in the byte array.

3. FromStream

using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead("sample.jpg"))
{
    MediaType mediaType = MediaType.FromStream(stream);
    // Returns a MediaType instance for "image/jpeg"
}

Detects the media type based on the file signature read from the stream.

These methods allow for flexible media type detection from various sources, making it easier to work with files and data streams in different formats.

StreamSegment

Represents a segment of a Stream that is itself a stream. This allows you to work with a specific portion of a stream as if it were a separate stream.

using (var stream = new FileStream("file.bin", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    // Create a StreamSegment that represents the first 1024 bytes of the stream
    using (var segment = new StreamSegment(stream, 0, 1024))
    {
        // Read the first 1024 bytes of the stream
        byte buffer = new byte;
        segment.Read(buffer, 0, 1024);
    }
}

UriBuilder

Derived from System.UriBuilder, this class provides a fluent API to configure segments and queries.

UriBuilder uriBuilder = new UriBuilder("http://www.myhost.com");
uriBuilder
    .AddSegments("api", "Product", 1)
    .AddQuery("key", "value");
// "https://www.myhost.com/api/Product/1?key=value"

ZigZag

Static class that encodes arrays to matrices and vice-versa.

int[,] matrix = new int[,] { { 0, 1 }, { 2, 3 } };
int[] array = ZigZag.ToArray(matrix); // [0, 1, 2, 3]