Hi Sebb,
If I were to do this from scratch I would make each codec object
instance-based and constructed from a factory with a "validating" flag. So
you'd get a validating or non-validating codec; kind of like an XML parser
can validate against a schema or not. This might be too much for a minor
Various Codec methods need to encode and decode bytes/Strings.
Not all byte sequences can be decoded into Strings, and not all
Strings can be encoded into bytes.
So a decision has to be made as to what to do when an invalid sequence
is detected.
At present the encoding/decoding is done by the
