This moves monitor networking into its own packet, rather than serialising
using NBT. This allows us to be more flexible with how monitors are
serialised.
We now compress terminal data using gzip. This reduces the packet size
of a max-sized-monitor from ~25kb to as little as 100b.
On my test set of images (what I would consider to be the extreme end of
the "reasonable" case), we have packets from 1.4kb bytes up to 12kb,
with a mean of 6kb. Even in the worst case, this is a 2x reduction in
packet size.
While this is a fantastic win for the common case, it is not abuse-proof.
One can create a terminal with high entropy (and so uncompressible). This
will still be close to the original packet size.
In order to prevent any other abuse, we also limit the amount of monitor
data a client can possibly receive to 1MB (configurable).
- Write to a PacketBuffer instead of generating an NBT tag. This is
then converted to an NBT byte array when we send across the network.
- Pack background/foreground colours into a single byte.
This derives from some work I did back in 2017, and some of the changes
made/planned in #409. However, this patch does not change how terminals
are represented, it simply makes the transfer more compact.
This makes the patch incredibly small (100 lines!), but also limited in
what improvements it can make compared with #409. We send 26626 bytes
for a full-sized monitor. While a 2x improvement over the previous 58558
bytes, there's a lot of room for improvement.
- Convert terminals from a polling-based system to a more event-driven
one: they now accept an onChanged callback, which marks the parent as
dirty.
- Schedule ticks when monitors are marked as dirty.
- Add several missing @Overrides. This has nothing to do with the rest
of the changes, but I'm bad at good git practice.
As we only send the terminal to players using the GUI, the map interface
was never updated. We now will also send the terminal state to whoever
has the computer in their inventory.
This also marks the terminal as dirty when a new player picks the pocket
computer up, hopefully preventing any desync issues which might occur
then.
Fixes#42.
