Getting Started with Oxide

History

Oxide is a utility library providing some helpful APIs that I've come across over the years.

Its original inspiration was me playing with Rust's option types and result types.

The "smart" parsing code came later, as an exploration in faking trait-like behavior; its initial implementation lacks trait-like behavior due to Oxide targeting netstandard1.3, which lacked significant chunks of the Reflection APIs needed to search for Parse/TryParse implementations. Oxide 1.0 introduced this behavior for the first time, as part of retargeting everything to netstandard2.0.

The object & enumerable extensions came later, via suggestions from my friend Ed for the Kotlin-inspired extensions, and APIs I've implemented over-and-over in projects for the rest.

Installation

Oxide is distributed via NuGet. The core package is available at http://nuget.org/packages/Oxide, and the HTTP extensions are at https://nuget.org/packages/Oxide.Http. It's a pure .NET Standard 2.0 assembly, which means it should be usable everywhere—likely, Unity is supported as well, but is not tested.

Getting Started

Check out the other conceptual documentation pages for high-level descriptions of concepts, and check out the samples for actual usage examples, covering all of the various provided APIs.