Hey, After processing some of PRs which didn't come into 0.8 I come to my own stuff which is intended to fix PLC4X-252. This change affects public API so it is worth to consider it early on with 0.9 just taking off.
Code changes are rather small - https://github.com/apache/plc4x/pull/201 I have ongoing discussion with Chris about it how this change should be integrated into code base. I would welcome input from others so we get into consensus there. Whole point is to let user pass field instance without invocation of FieldHandler which is there to parse String into PlcField. Some of pros/cons are outlined in comments under PR. Looking forward to your input. Best, Łukasz
