Link to functions in IMACS repository (encode-decode-bytes branch)
encode.py (encoding function)
receives a message – of type string – as a parameter and encodes it into space-separated hexadecimal values.
the encoded value is joined with other relevant information (temporarily hardcoded) included from the Array of Bytes documentation found in Ground-Side-Telemetry
decode.py (decoding function)
recevies and paritions and an encoded message – passed as string – and a integer base (defaulted at 16)
relevant information (e.g message length, frame type, etc.) are extracted, decoded, and stored in a dictionary
resto be returned at the end of the function