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Bug in ClientEngine - handleInboundMessage/Serializer.deserialize #103

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There is a bug in method handleInboundMessage in ClientEngine.

/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/serialize/Serializer.js:98 Uncaught TypeError: First argument to DataView constructor must be an ArrayBuffer
    at new DataView (<anonymous>)
    at Serializer.deserialize (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/serialize/Serializer.js:98)
    at NetworkTransmitter.deserializePayload (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/network/NetworkTransmitter.js:111)
    at Client.handleInboundMessage (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/ClientEngine.js:448)
    at Client.handleInboundMessage (Client.js:170)
    at Client.step (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/ClientEngine.js:339)
    at Renderer.runClientStep (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/render/Renderer.js:144)
    at Renderer.draw (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/render/Renderer.js:99)
    at Renderer.draw (Renderer.js:27)
    at renderLoop (/media/maxli/Data/dev/OpenArcanum/node_modules/lance-gg/es5/ClientEngine.js:220)

The DataView expects a ArrayBuffer, but plain Buffer is passed in constructor. The workaround is to override handleInboundMessage in ClientEngine and convert the buffer to ArrayBuffer :

  handleInboundMessage(syncData) {
    let buffer = Uint8Array.from(syncData.dataBuffer)
    syncData.dataBuffer = buffer.buffer
    super.handleInboundMessage(syncData)
  }

This works. However is quite inefficient IMHO. Any chance to fix this any soon?
Running in Electron 3.X.

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