Parser and Assembler refactoring

[swismer]

If you want to have a closer look, I would suggest to review each commit individually.
Some comments:

• I hope it's OK to drop support for Java 7. I mainly wanted to use default methods instead of introducing an AbstractReader. BTW, what about updating the Java versions used in the GitHub actions? 9-13 could be replaced by the LTS versions 8, 11 and 17...
• While moving code around, I tried to change as few things as possible, as this is difficult to review. However, I cleaned up cases where both a byte array and a DataReader (on the same data) have been passed as parameter.
• As I'm using this library as maven dependency and creating such PRs to get rid of my local patches, I would be glad, if you could deploy a release some day... :-)

On my TODO list for upcoming PRs (in case you want to comment on those):

• Do more cleanups: Remove empty classes, separate unit tests from experiments (and remove some of them), remove unused test resources
• Provide functions to recalculate sizes/offsets/pointers/checksums etc. - basically the first step to modify parts of an executable.

[kichik]

Thanks, I'll read.

• No objection Java 7 removal. It's EOL AFAIK.
• We should update GitHub Actions to at least add 8 and 17. I wouldn't want to remove any versions. The more versions tested, the better.

• As I'm using this library as maven dependency and creating such PRs to get rid of my local patches, I would be glad, if you could deploy a release some day... :-)

0.3.3 was released 3 weeks ago with #29. Maven is automated once I create a tag. The GitHub release needs to be published which I forgot to do.

[swismer]

Thank you!
FYI: Java 9, 10, 12 and 13 are EOL as well. If more is better: Maybe use all the versions currently maintained by Adoptium Temurin (8, 11, 16-20)?

[kichik]

That's a lot of deprecations 😅

[kichik]

Thank you! FYI: Java 9, 10, 12 and 13 are EOL as well. If more is better: Maybe use all the versions currently maintained by Adoptium Temurin (8, 11, 16-20)?

That sounds good.