"new Buffer()" is deprecated since Node.js 6

[generalmimon]

The following line:

kaitai_struct_javascript_runtime/KaitaiStream.js

Line 585 in 1ae3924

return new Buffer(arr).toString(encoding);

is marked in VS Code with a deprecation warning:

Related article in Node.js docs: https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/buffer-constructor-deprecation/

[generalmimon]

is marked in VS Code with a deprecation warning:

The warning from VS Code isn't entirely accurate, though:

1. it thinks that the constructor we call is (str: string, encoding?: BufferEncoding), when we actually call these - new Buffer(array) and new Buffer(buffer), which are clearly not the same:

   new Buffer(array)

   Stability: 0 - Deprecated: Use Buffer.from(array) instead.

   • array <integer[]> An array of bytes to copy from.

   Allocates a new Buffer using an array of octets.

   // Creates a new Buffer containing the UTF-8 bytes of the string 'buffer'
   const buf = new Buffer([0x62, 0x75, 0x66, 0x66, 0x65, 0x72]);

   ---

   new Buffer(buffer)

   Stability: 0 - Deprecated: Use Buffer.from(buffer) instead.

   • buffer <Buffer> | <Uint8Array> An existing Buffer or Uint8Array from which to copy data.

   Copies the passed buffer data onto a new Buffer instance.

   const buf1 = new Buffer('buffer');
   const buf2 = new Buffer(buf1);
   
   buf1[0] = 0x61;
   
   console.log(buf1.toString());
   // Prints: auffer
   console.log(buf2.toString());
   // Prints: buffer

2. it isn't deprecated since Node.js 10, but even since Node.js 6:

   ▼ History

   Version	Changes
   v10.0.0	Calling this constructor emits a deprecation warning when run from code outside the node_modules directory.
   v7.2.1	Calling this constructor no longer emits a deprecation warning.
   v7.0.0	Calling this constructor emits a deprecation warning now.
   v6.0.0	Deprecated since: v6.0.0