A significant portion of players who use ports are passing objects through them. Currently they are required to handle that themselves via JSON serialization. This PR adds better support for passing objects; which is more convenient, extensive, and optimized (probably, more on this one later).
This adds zero overhead to existing (or when passing any primitive types) port usage, and also isn't a breaking change. The questions to debate here are:
Should objects be supported in the first place?
If so, how exactly do we want to serialize objects?
Based on an extensive discussion in Discord, the overwhelming majority answered "yes" to question one. As for question two, that has been much more hotly contested.
Ultimately, `structuredClone` was used, despite less-than-stellar performance, because other options were worse either in safety, speed, error-handling, or multiple of the above.
so far we calculate the effect of weaken in three +1 places
ns.weaken
ns.weakenAnalyze
terminal weaken
and server.weaken where the bn mult is applied
i extracted the logic into a new netscript helper function getWeakenEffect
this gives us one place if we want to change the formula
a side effect i added the server.cpuCores to the terminal weaken to future proof it if the npc server core pr (#963) is merged
* ns.ls filter can include leading slash in filename
* scp from terminal accepts multiple filenames
* terminal displays root / instead of ~ as base
* cd with no args returns to root
* Move lastAugReset and lastNodeReset back to main API under getResetInfo, also included currentNode.
* The associated properties are deprecated on getPlayer()
* parseCommands no longer removes excess whitespace (it was unneeded and also had a bug in it relating to commands that ended in a quote mark)
* more documentation and some variable renaming
* Fix script editor focus bug on navigating to the editor from sidebar
* Fix initialization for lastNodeReset and lastAugReset
* Added new types for various file paths, all in the Paths folder.
* TypeSafety and other helper functions related to these types
* Added basic globbing support with * and ?. Currently only implemented for Script/Text, on nano and download terminal commands
* Enforcing the new types throughout the codebase, plus whatever rewrites happened along the way
* Server.textFiles is now a map
* TextFile no longer uses a fn property, now it is filename
* Added a shared ContentFile interface for shared functionality between TextFile and Script.
* related to ContentFile change above, the player is now allowed to move a text file to a script file and vice versa.
* File paths no longer conditionally start with slashes, and all directory names other than root have ending slashes. The player is still able to provide paths starting with / but this now indicates that the player is specifying an absolute path instead of one relative to root.
* Singularized the MessageFilename and LiteratureName enums
* Because they now only accept correct types, server.writeToXFile functions now always succeed (the only reasons they could fail before were invalid filepath).
* Fix several issues with tab completion, which included pretty much a complete rewrite
* Changed the autocomplete display options so there's less chance it clips outside the display area.
* Turned CompletedProgramName into an enum.
* Got rid of programsMetadata, and programs and DarkWebItems are now initialized immediately instead of relying on initializers called from the engine.
* For any executable (program, cct, or script file) pathing can be used directly to execute without using the run command (previously the command had to start with ./ and it wasn't actually using pathing).
