kotlinx.serialization
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Kotlin
Add parameters startIndex and endIndex to BinaryFormat.decodeFromByteArray
What is your use-case and why do you need this feature?
I need to deserialize an object received from websockets as a byte array (the ktor client library stores received data as a ByteArray), but in the same message I need to pass additional information that is not to be deserialized. I want to avoid creating copies of the array for performance reasons, but with the current implementation I can not tell it to only use part of the array.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add parameters startIndex and endIndex to BinaryFormat.decodeFromByteArray. These parameters should have default parameters 0 and bytes.size. This is similar to how decodeToString is implemented.
