From 51afab39b33dcabfc2b795f5d54b43c0089a2eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Organ <patrick@permafrost.dev>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:16:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add loadBytes() support

---
 src/Assets.ts | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Assets.ts b/src/Assets.ts
index 60afa5f..575fb7d 100644
--- a/src/Assets.ts
+++ b/src/Assets.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,25 @@ export class Assets {
         return {};
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Loads a file from a script asset URL using `p5.loadBytes()`, and returns an object with a `bytes` property.
+     * @param {string} path
+     * @returns {object} an object whose 'bytes' property will be the loaded buffer
+     */
+    public async loadBytes(path: string) {
+        path = getMerakiScriptFileAssetsUrl() + this.sanitizeUrl(path);
+
+        try {
+            // @ts-ignore
+            // eslint-disable-next-line no-undef
+            return loadBytes(path);
+        } catch (e) {
+            //
+        }
+
+        return { bytes: [] };
+    }
+
     /**
      * Loads an image from the `path` script asset URL and creates a `p5.Image` from it.
      * @param {string} path