Added var2bytes and bytes2var to convet any variable to bytes and back. Closes #2075

3 files changed, 69 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.cpp b/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.cpp
index 11bb3a859a..e015ddb65e 100644
--- a/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.cpp
+++ b/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.cpp
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include "func_ref.h"
 #include "os/os.h"
 #include "variant_parser.h"
+#include "io/marshalls.h"
 
 const char *GDFunctions::get_func_name(Function p_func) {
 
@@ -94,6 +95,8 @@ const char *GDFunctions::get_func_name(Function p_func) {
 		"printraw",
 		"var2str",
 		"str2var",
+		"var2bytes",
+		"bytes2var",
 		"range",
 		"load",
 		"inst2dict",
@@ -639,6 +642,57 @@ void GDFunctions::call(Function p_func,const Variant **p_args,int p_arg_count,Va
 			}
 
 		} break;
+		case VAR_TO_BYTES: {
+			VALIDATE_ARG_COUNT(1);
+
+			ByteArray barr;
+			int len;
+			Error err = encode_variant(*p_args[0],NULL,len);
+			if (err) {
+				r_error.error=Variant::CallError::CALL_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT;
+				r_error.argument=0;
+				r_error.expected=Variant::NIL;
+				r_ret=Variant();
+				return;
+			}
+
+			barr.resize(len);
+			{
+				ByteArray::Write w = barr.write();
+				encode_variant(*p_args[0],w.ptr(),len);
+
+			}
+			r_ret=barr;
+		} break;
+		case BYTES_TO_VAR: {
+			VALIDATE_ARG_COUNT(1);
+			if (p_args[0]->get_type()!=Variant::RAW_ARRAY) {
+				r_error.error=Variant::CallError::CALL_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT;
+				r_error.argument=0;
+				r_error.expected=Variant::RAW_ARRAY;
+				r_ret=Variant();
+				return;
+			}
+
+			ByteArray varr=*p_args[0];
+			Variant ret;
+			{
+				ByteArray::Read r=varr.read();
+				Error err = decode_variant(ret,r.ptr(),varr.size(),NULL);
+				if (err!=OK) {
+					ERR_PRINT("Not enough bytes for decoding..");
+					r_error.error=Variant::CallError::CALL_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT;
+					r_error.argument=0;
+					r_error.expected=Variant::RAW_ARRAY;
+					r_ret=Variant();
+					return;
+				}
+
+			}
+
+			r_ret=ret;
+
+		} break;
 		case GEN_RANGE: {
 
 			switch(p_arg_count) {
@@ -1358,6 +1412,18 @@ MethodInfo GDFunctions::get_info(Function p_func) {
 			mi.return_val.type=Variant::NIL;
 			return mi;
 		} break;
+		case VAR_TO_BYTES: {
+			MethodInfo mi("var2bytes",PropertyInfo(Variant::NIL,"var"));
+			mi.return_val.type=Variant::RAW_ARRAY;
+			return mi;
+
+		} break;
+		case BYTES_TO_VAR: {
+
+			MethodInfo mi("bytes2var:Variant",PropertyInfo(Variant::RAW_ARRAY,"bytes"));
+			mi.return_val.type=Variant::NIL;
+			return mi;
+		} break;
 		case GEN_RANGE: {
 
 			MethodInfo mi("range",PropertyInfo(Variant::NIL,"..."));
diff --git a/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.h b/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.h
index e6ef8b9ec8..8c88472567 100644
--- a/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.h
+++ b/modules/gdscript/gd_functions.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ public:
 		TEXT_PRINTRAW,
 		VAR_TO_STR,
 		STR_TO_VAR,
+		VAR_TO_BYTES,
+		BYTES_TO_VAR,
 		GEN_RANGE,
 		RESOURCE_LOAD,
 		INST2DICT,
diff --git a/modules/gdscript/gd_tokenizer.cpp b/modules/gdscript/gd_tokenizer.cpp
index 4280c47edf..377ef06694 100644
--- a/modules/gdscript/gd_tokenizer.cpp
+++ b/modules/gdscript/gd_tokenizer.cpp
@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ void GDTokenizerText::advance(int p_amount) {
 
 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-#define BYTECODE_VERSION 9
+#define BYTECODE_VERSION 10
 
 Error GDTokenizerBuffer::set_code_buffer(const Vector<uint8_t> & p_buffer) {