Serialize structs and classes to byte array and vice-versa
Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ceiralizer
public struct CeiraPacket : IPacket
{
// PacketFieldAttribute determine if the field is serializable
[PacketField] public short Op;
public string Garbage;
[PacketField] public int Value;
[PacketField] public int[] Ceiras;
[PacketField] public char Prefix;
[PacketField] public CeirinhaPacket Ceirinha;
[PacketField] public string Name;
[PacketField] public bool IsWorking;
}
public struct CeirinhaPacket : IPacket
{
[PacketField] public string Ceirinha;
}using System.Text;
using Ceiralizer;
using Ceiralizer.Test;
// Default is UNICODE, change to UTF8 to reduce the size.
PacketSerializer.StringEncoder = Encoding.UTF8;
// Add custom class to serialize
TypeSerializer.Serializers.Add(typeof(Vector2), value =>
{
List<byte> bytes = new List<byte>();
Vector2 pos = (Vector2) value;
byte[] x = TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(int)].Invoke(pos.X);
byte[] y = TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(int)].Invoke(pos.Y);
bytes.AddRange(x);
bytes.AddRange(y);
return bytes.ToArray();
});
// And also adding deserializer
TypeSerializer.Deserializers.Add(typeof(Vector2), data =>
{
int x = data.ReadInt();
int y = data.ReadInt();
return new Vector2(x, y);
});
List<byte> data = PacketSerializer.Serialize(new CeiraPacket
{
Op = 2,
Value = 255,
Ceiras = new[] { 4, 66, 95 },
Garbage = "Lixo",
Prefix = 'c',
Ceirinha = new CeirinhaPacket
{
Ceirinha = "Ceira purinha"
},
Name = "Ceira",
IsWorking = true,
Position = new Vector2(5, 25)
}).ToList();
CeiraPacket packet = PacketSerializer.Deserialize<CeiraPacket>(data);
Console.WriteLine(packet.Op);
Console.WriteLine(packet.Value);
foreach (int ceira in packet.Ceiras) Console.Write($" {ceira} ");
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine(packet.Prefix);
Console.WriteLine(packet.Ceirinha.Ceirinha);
Console.WriteLine(packet.Name);
Console.WriteLine(packet.IsWorking);
Console.WriteLine($"X: {packet.Position.X}, Y: {packet.Position.Y}");2
255
4 66 95
c
Ceira purinha
Ceira
True
X: 5, Y: 25
bool- (System.Boolean)byte- (System.Byte)sbyte- (System.SByte)char- (System.Char)double- (System.Double)float- (System.Single)int- (System.Int32)uint- (System.UInt32)long- (System.Int64)ulong- (System.UInt64)short- (System.Int16)ushort- (System.UInt16)string- (System.String)
public class Ceirax : ISerializable
{
public string Title = "";
public string Description = "";
public float Price;
public byte[] Serialize()
{
List<byte> data = new List<byte>();
data.AddRange(TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(string)].Invoke(Title));
data.AddRange(TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(string)].Invoke(Description));
data.AddRange(TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(float)].Invoke(Price));
return data.ToArray();
}
public void Deserialize(Chunk data)
{
Title = (TypeSerializer.Deserializers[typeof(string)].Invoke(data) as string)!;
Description = (TypeSerializer.Deserializers[typeof(string)].Invoke(data) as string)!;
Price = (float) TypeSerializer.Deserializers[typeof(float)].Invoke(data)!;
}
}1 | 00000010 00000000 | 2
2 | 11111111 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 255
3.1 | 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 3
3.2 | 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 4
3.2 | 01000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 66
3.2 | 01011111 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 95
4 | 01100011 | 'c'
5.1 | 00001101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 13
5.2 | 01000011 01100101 01101001 01110010 | "Ceir"
5.2 | 01100001 00100000 01110000 01110101 | "a pu"
5.2 | 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101000 | "rinh"
5.2 | 01100001 | "a"
6.1 | 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 5
6.2 | 01000011 01100101 01101001 01110010 | "Ceir"
6.2 | 01100001 | "a"
7 | 00000001 | True
8 | 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 5
8 | 00011001 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 25
01110010 01100001 00000001 000001
01 00000000 00000000 00000000 00011001 00000000 00000000 00000000
*The bytes seem inverted, why the computer reads the list from left to right.
1: short 00000000 00000010 | 2
[PacketField] public short Op;*Note that the Garbage has been ignored
2: int 11111111 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 255
[PacketField] public int Value;3: int[]
[PacketField] public int[] Ceiras;3.1: int 00000011 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 3
*Represents the size of the array
3.2: int[]
00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 4
01000010 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 66
01011111 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 95
*An sequence of integers, the array content
4: char 01100011 | 'c'
[PacketField] public char Prefix;5: CeirinhaPacket
[PacketField] public CeirinhaPacket Ceirinha;*This Packet is merged to main packet
[PacketField] public string Ceirinha;5.1: int 00001101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 13
*As strings have no fixed length, an integer comes together to represent their size
5.2: string 01000011 01100101 01101001 01110010 01100001 00100000 01110000 01110101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01101000 01100001 "Ceira purinha"
6: serialized string
[PacketField] public string Name;6.1: int 00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 5
6.2: string 01000011 01100101 01101001 01110010 01100001 | "Ceira"
7: bool 00000001 | True
[PacketField] public bool IsWorking;*Booleans can be 00000000 (False) or 00000001 (True), they represent a byte so as not to interfere with the reading of the packet.
8: Vector2
public struct Vector2
{
public int X;
public int Y;
public Vector2(int x = 0, int y = 0)
{
X = x;
Y = y;
}
}
// Declaration in the packet
[PacketField] public Vector2 Position;
// Serialization
TypeSerializer.Serializers.Add(typeof(Vector2), value =>
{
List<byte> bytes = new List<byte>();
Vector2 pos = (Vector2) value;
byte[] x = TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(int)].Invoke(pos.X);
byte[] y = TypeSerializer.Serializers[typeof(int)].Invoke(pos.Y);
bytes.AddRange(x);
bytes.AddRange(y);
return bytes.ToArray();
});
// Deserialization
TypeSerializer.Deserializers.Add(typeof(Vector2), data =>
{
int x = data.ReadInt();
int y = data.ReadInt();
return new Vector2(x, y);
});00000101 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 5
00011001 00000000 00000000 00000000 | 25
