struct Slice(T)

Overview

A Slice is a Pointer with an associated size.

While a pointer is unsafe because no bound checks are performed when reading from and writing to it, reading from and writing to a slice involve bound checks. In this way, a slice is a safe alternative to Pointer.

A Slice can be created as read-only: trying to write to it will raise. For example the slice of bytes returned by String#to_slice is read-only.

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Instance Method Summary

Instance Method Detail

def to_canonical_extjson(builder : JSON::Builder, subtype : BSON::Binary::SubType? = nil) #

Serialize to a canonical extended json representation.

NOTE see https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/blob/master/source/extended-json.rst