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+import { FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH, SIZEOF_INT } from "./constants";
+import { Long } from "./long";
+import { int32, isLittleEndian, float32, float64 } from "./utils";
+import { Offset, Table, IGeneratedObject } from "./types";
+import { Encoding } from "./encoding";
+
+export class ByteBuffer {
+    private position_ = 0;
+  
+    /**
+     * Create a new ByteBuffer with a given array of bytes (`Uint8Array`)
+     */
+    constructor(private bytes_: Uint8Array) { }
+  
+    /**
+     * Create and allocate a new ByteBuffer with a given size.
+     */
+    static allocate(byte_size: number): ByteBuffer {
+      return new ByteBuffer(new Uint8Array(byte_size));
+    }
+  
+    clear(): void {
+      this.position_ = 0;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Get the underlying `Uint8Array`.
+     */
+    bytes(): Uint8Array {
+      return this.bytes_;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Get the buffer's position.
+     */
+    position(): number {
+      return this.position_;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Set the buffer's position.
+     */
+    setPosition(position: number): void {
+      this.position_ = position;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Get the buffer's capacity.
+     */
+    capacity(): number {
+      return this.bytes_.length;
+    }
+  
+    readInt8(offset: number): number {
+      return this.readUint8(offset) << 24 >> 24;
+    }
+  
+    readUint8(offset: number): number {
+      return this.bytes_[offset];
+    }
+  
+    readInt16(offset: number): number {
+      return this.readUint16(offset) << 16 >> 16;
+    }
+  
+    readUint16(offset: number): number {
+      return this.bytes_[offset] | this.bytes_[offset + 1] << 8;
+    }
+  
+    readInt32(offset: number): number {
+      return this.bytes_[offset] | this.bytes_[offset + 1] << 8 | this.bytes_[offset + 2] << 16 | this.bytes_[offset + 3] << 24;
+    }
+  
+    readUint32(offset: number): number {
+      return this.readInt32(offset) >>> 0;
+    }
+  
+    readInt64(offset: number): Long {
+      return new Long(this.readInt32(offset), this.readInt32(offset + 4));
+    }
+  
+    readUint64(offset: number): Long {
+      return new Long(this.readUint32(offset), this.readUint32(offset + 4));
+    }
+  
+    readFloat32(offset: number): number {
+      int32[0] = this.readInt32(offset);
+      return float32[0];
+    }
+  
+    readFloat64(offset: number): number {
+      int32[isLittleEndian ? 0 : 1] = this.readInt32(offset);
+      int32[isLittleEndian ? 1 : 0] = this.readInt32(offset + 4);
+      return float64[0];
+    }
+  
+    writeInt8(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+    }
+  
+    writeUint8(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+    }
+  
+    writeInt16(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+      this.bytes_[offset + 1] = value >> 8;
+    }
+  
+    writeUint16(offset: number, value: number): void {
+        this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+        this.bytes_[offset + 1] = value >> 8;
+    }
+  
+    writeInt32(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+      this.bytes_[offset + 1] = value >> 8;
+      this.bytes_[offset + 2] = value >> 16;
+      this.bytes_[offset + 3] = value >> 24;
+    }
+  
+    writeUint32(offset: number, value: number): void {
+        this.bytes_[offset] = value;
+        this.bytes_[offset + 1] = value >> 8;
+        this.bytes_[offset + 2] = value >> 16;
+        this.bytes_[offset + 3] = value >> 24;
+    }
+  
+    writeInt64(offset: number, value: Long): void {
+      this.writeInt32(offset, value.low);
+      this.writeInt32(offset + 4, value.high);
+    }
+  
+    writeUint64(offset: number, value: Long): void {
+        this.writeUint32(offset, value.low);
+        this.writeUint32(offset + 4, value.high);
+    }
+  
+    writeFloat32(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      float32[0] = value;
+      this.writeInt32(offset, int32[0]);
+    }
+  
+    writeFloat64(offset: number, value: number): void {
+      float64[0] = value;
+      this.writeInt32(offset, int32[isLittleEndian ? 0 : 1]);
+      this.writeInt32(offset + 4, int32[isLittleEndian ? 1 : 0]);
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Return the file identifier.   Behavior is undefined for FlatBuffers whose
+     * schema does not include a file_identifier (likely points at padding or the
+     * start of a the root vtable).
+     */
+    getBufferIdentifier(): string {
+      if (this.bytes_.length < this.position_ + SIZEOF_INT +
+          FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH) {
+        throw new Error(
+            'FlatBuffers: ByteBuffer is too short to contain an identifier.');
+      }
+      let result = "";
+      for (let i = 0; i < FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH; i++) {
+        result += String.fromCharCode(
+            this.readInt8(this.position_ + SIZEOF_INT + i));
+      }
+      return result;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Look up a field in the vtable, return an offset into the object, or 0 if the
+     * field is not present.
+     */
+    __offset(bb_pos: number, vtable_offset: number): Offset {
+      const vtable = bb_pos - this.readInt32(bb_pos);
+      return vtable_offset < this.readInt16(vtable) ? this.readInt16(vtable + vtable_offset) : 0;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Initialize any Table-derived type to point to the union at the given offset.
+     */
+    __union(t: Table, offset: number): Table {
+      t.bb_pos = offset + this.readInt32(offset);
+      t.bb = this;
+      return t;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Create a JavaScript string from UTF-8 data stored inside the FlatBuffer.
+     * This allocates a new string and converts to wide chars upon each access.
+     *
+     * To avoid the conversion to UTF-16, pass Encoding.UTF8_BYTES as
+     * the "optionalEncoding" argument. This is useful for avoiding conversion to
+     * and from UTF-16 when the data will just be packaged back up in another
+     * FlatBuffer later on.
+     *
+     * @param offset
+     * @param opt_encoding Defaults to UTF16_STRING
+     */
+    __string(offset: number, opt_encoding?: Encoding): string | Uint8Array {
+      offset += this.readInt32(offset);
+  
+      const length = this.readInt32(offset);
+      let result = '';
+      let i = 0;
+  
+      offset += SIZEOF_INT;
+  
+      if (opt_encoding === Encoding.UTF8_BYTES) {
+        return this.bytes_.subarray(offset, offset + length);
+      }
+  
+      while (i < length) {
+        let codePoint;
+  
+        // Decode UTF-8
+        const a = this.readUint8(offset + i++);
+        if (a < 0xC0) {
+          codePoint = a;
+        } else {
+          const b = this.readUint8(offset + i++);
+          if (a < 0xE0) {
+            codePoint =
+              ((a & 0x1F) << 6) |
+              (b & 0x3F);
+          } else {
+            const c = this.readUint8(offset + i++);
+            if (a < 0xF0) {
+              codePoint =
+                ((a & 0x0F) << 12) |
+                ((b & 0x3F) << 6) |
+                (c & 0x3F);
+            } else {
+              const d = this.readUint8(offset + i++);
+              codePoint =
+                ((a & 0x07) << 18) |
+                ((b & 0x3F) << 12) |
+                ((c & 0x3F) << 6) |
+                (d & 0x3F);
+            }
+          }
+        }
+  
+        // Encode UTF-16
+        if (codePoint < 0x10000) {
+          result += String.fromCharCode(codePoint);
+        } else {
+          codePoint -= 0x10000;
+          result += String.fromCharCode(
+            (codePoint >> 10) + 0xD800,
+            (codePoint & ((1 << 10) - 1)) + 0xDC00);
+        }
+      }
+  
+      return result;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Handle unions that can contain string as its member, if a Table-derived type then initialize it, 
+     * if a string then return a new one
+     * 
+     * WARNING: strings are immutable in JS so we can't change the string that the user gave us, this 
+     * makes the behaviour of __union_with_string different compared to __union
+     */
+    __union_with_string(o: Table | string, offset: number) : Table | string {
+      if(typeof o === 'string') {
+        return this.__string(offset) as string;
+      } 
+      return this.__union(o, offset);
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Retrieve the relative offset stored at "offset"
+     */
+    __indirect(offset: Offset): Offset {
+      return offset + this.readInt32(offset);
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Get the start of data of a vector whose offset is stored at "offset" in this object.
+     */
+    __vector(offset: Offset): Offset {
+      return offset + this.readInt32(offset) + SIZEOF_INT; // data starts after the length
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * Get the length of a vector whose offset is stored at "offset" in this object.
+     */
+    __vector_len(offset: Offset): Offset {
+      return this.readInt32(offset + this.readInt32(offset));
+    }
+  
+    __has_identifier(ident: string): boolean {
+      if (ident.length != FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH) {
+        throw new Error('FlatBuffers: file identifier must be length ' +
+                        FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH);
+      }
+      for (let i = 0; i < FILE_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH; i++) {
+        if (ident.charCodeAt(i) != this.readInt8(this.position() + SIZEOF_INT + i)) {
+          return false;
+        }
+      }
+      return true;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * A helper function to avoid generated code depending on this file directly.
+     */
+    createLong(low: number, high: number): Long {
+      return Long.create(low, high);
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * A helper function for generating list for obj api
+     */
+    createScalarList(listAccessor: (i: number) => unknown, listLength: number) : unknown[] {
+      const ret: unknown[] = [];
+      for(let i = 0; i < listLength; ++i) {
+        if(listAccessor(i) !== null) {
+          ret.push(listAccessor(i));
+        }
+      }
+  
+      return ret;
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * This function is here only to get around typescript type system
+     */
+    createStringList(listAccessor: (i: number) => unknown, listLength: number): unknown[] {
+      return this.createScalarList(listAccessor, listLength);
+    }
+  
+    /**
+     * A helper function for generating list for obj api
+     * @param listAccessor function that accepts an index and return data at that index
+     * @param listLength listLength
+     * @param res result list
+     */
+    createObjList(listAccessor: (i: number) => IGeneratedObject, listLength: number): IGeneratedObject[] {
+      const ret: IGeneratedObject[] = [];
+      for(let i = 0; i < listLength; ++i) {
+        const val = listAccessor(i);
+        if(val !== null) {
+          ret.push(val.unpack());
+        }
+      }
+      
+      return ret;
+    }
+  
+  }
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