Improvement: Provide an API to parse an arbitrary barcode

[ChristianKatzmann]

We can already get the details of a Barcode instance by checking its valueFormat and afterwards checking the other members (like sms, email, …).

Unfortunately, this is not enough for my use case as I provide a history of scanned Barcodes in my app. Before migrating to Mobile Vision I used ZXing and its ResultParser.parseResult(String) method to build up the details of the history – so I was safe to just persist the rawValue of a Barcode. I can't find a similar API in the Mobile Vision package.

Can you implement such API like e.g. Barcode.parseRawValue(String) or is there another way to achieve this?

[pchx-zz]

Unfortunately, there is no API to parse a value without recognizing it from a barcode first.

The parsing is done in native code, and it's somewhat complex to expose those internals. We'll look into it for a future version; thanks for the suggestion!