Merge branch 'bdf-improvements' into 'master'

BDF improvements

* Change the semantics of the BdfList/Dictionary methods with default values so they return the default value if the value is missing, or throw an exception if it the value's present but has the wrong type - this is more useful for validators, which have to deal with optional values without accepting values of the wrong type
* Reuse BdfReader/Writer for MetadataParser/Encoder so we don't have two implementations of BDF


See merge request !117