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[wpiutil] Fix DynamicStruct string handling (#6253)
Dynamic structs had a few major issues. In C++, if the string was the last definition in the schema, attempting to set a string would trigger an assertion. This has been fixed Setting a string value could truncate the string actually stored in the struct, if the definition was shorter than the string to set. There was no way to detect if this case occurred. The set string function now returns a bool if the string was fully written or not. Reading a string that had a value shorter than the schema definition would result in embedded trailing nulls in the string. This would make comparing string equality basically impossible, as those embedded nulls count for the length of the string. The above truncating didn't take into account UTF8 code points. This means a truncation could happen in the middle of a unicode character. Depending on the language this had different behavior, but unpaired code points are problematic to detect in any case. On the decoding side, detect if a split UTF8 code point has occurred by the writer, and if so just ignore it and treat it as not part of the string. Doing this on the receive side means a newer receive side is all that is needed to fix this, which is generally a better option then requiring all senders to update. Actual DynamicStruct instances have 0 units tests for them. Added a bunch of unit tests around strings to ensure things work properly.
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