Long String

When saving large amounts of serialized data to WoW’s SavedVariables files, it’s common to run into issues where very large strings aren’t saved properly. The LongString module provides a simple solution to this by internally splitting the string and storing it as a list of smaller strings. It also leverages the Encoder module to compress the string and encode it as base64.

API

class BaseType.LongString: LibTSMModule

staticmethod Encode(str: string): EncodedLongString

Encodes a long string into a value which is safe to store in WoW’s SV file.

Parameters:

str (string) – The string to encode

staticmethod Decode(value: EncodedLongString): string

Decodes a previously-encoded value back into a long string.

Parameters:

value (EncodedLongString) – The value to decode