- Simplify and consolidate code for parsing hex input.
- Replace beast::endian::order with boost::endian::order.
- Simplify CountedObject code.
- Remove pre-C++17 workarounds in favor of C++17 based solutions.
- Improve `base_uint` and simplify its hex-parsing interface by
consolidating the `SexHex` and `SetHexExact` methods into one
API: `parseHex` which forces callers to verify the result of
the operation; as a result some public-facing API endpoints
may now return errors when passed values that were previously
accepted.
- Remove the simple fallback implementations of SHA2 and RIPEMD
introduced to reduce our dependency on OpenSSL. The code is
slow and rarely, if ever, exercised and we rely on OpenSSL
functionality for Boost.ASIO as well.
This commit removes obsolete comments, dead or no longer useful
code, and workarounds for several issues that were present in older
compilers that we no longer support.
Specifically:
- It improves the transaction metadata handling class, simplifying
its use and making it less error-prone.
- It reduces the footprint of the Serializer class by consolidating
code and leveraging templates.
- It cleanups the ST* class hierarchy, removing dead code, improving
and consolidating code to reduce complexity and code duplication.
- It shores up the handling of currency codes and the conversation
between 160-bit currency codes and their string representation.
- It migrates beast::secure_erase to the ripple namespace and uses
a call to OpenSSL_cleanse instead of the custom implementation.
