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Add deserialization support for new binary VDF w/ key table
The new Steam beta introduced a new appinfo.vdf version. This appinfo.vdf V29 introduces a new binary VDF format which does not include field keys in binary VDF segments as-is. Instead, each key is represented by a 32-bit integer which needs to be mapped to an actual string using a table stored at the end of the appinfo.vdf file.
This also means the binary VDF segments in this case are no longer self-contained. The developer can parse and provide the table themselves or instead use the ValvePython/steam library which contains a function to parse appinfo.vdf files.
Also see SteamDatabase/SteamAppInfo@56b1fec7f5ce6be961c3e44cf9baf117e363ad91
Refs ValvePython/steam#462
This fix is also needed over at https://github.com/cbartondock/node-binary-vdf in case you feel like submitting a PR :) if not I will work on borrowing your code! Good job figuring this out.
This fix is also needed over at https://github.com/cbartondock/node-binary-vdf in case you feel like submitting a PR :) if not I will work on borrowing your code! Good job figuring this out.
Thank you, you can use this PR as a reference.
I can't take full credit, though; SteamDatabase/SteamAppInfo was the first to figure out the new format to my knowledge and this implementation is based on their findings.
Okay just got it finished. The node module is binary-vdf-2. In case anyone needs the code for reference:
https://github.com/cbartondock/node-binary-vdf/blob/master/src/index.ts
Maintainers, please pick this up and release it so that the library doesn't need to published to PyPI under a new name. It is now more urgent as the stable version of Steam is now using this new format.
Just going to point out that, if the maintainer doesn't return, we have a fork that has this and many of the other pending PRs merged: https://github.com/solsticegamestudios/vdf
The python-vdf package on AUR also points to this fork now.
