Simple-Serialiser

A simple binary serialiser which I use with Unity and PlayerIO. It serialises to an from a byte array which PlayerIO can send around. It supports all the basic value types and also arrays and generic list. I have also included support for some common Unity types like Vector3.

You only need GameSerializer.cs on your client side (Unity) and both GameSerializer.cs and UnityStructs.cs in your server sources. Feel free the modify the sources to suite your needs.

Usage

Use Serialize() to create a byte array.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using PlayerIO.GameLibrary;
using BMGame;

[RoomType("Game")]
public class Game : Game<GamePlayer>
{
	private readonly GameSerializer gs = new GameSerializer();

	public override void UserJoined(GamePlayer player)
	{
		int[] intArray = { 1, 2, 3};
		List<float> floatList = new List<float>() { 1.2f, 2.44f, 34.0f};

		// encoding simple and unity types
		byte[] data0 = gs.Serialize(25);
		byte[] data1 = gs.Serialize("a string");
		byte[] data2 = gs.Serialize(new Vector3(1f, 2f, 3f));
		byte[] data3 = gs.Serialize(intArray);
		byte[] data4 = gs.Serialize(floatList);

		// and send
		player.Send("test", data0, data1, data2, data3, data4);
	}
 }

... and to decode the data you use Deserialize().

private GameSerializer gs = new GameSerializer();

private void OnGameMessage(object sender, Message msg)
{
	if (msg.Type == "test")
	{
		// you need to retrieve the messages in same order you send them
		// I will get them into vars to make the code easier to follow

		byte[] data0 = msg.GetByteArray(0);
		byte[] data1 = msg.GetByteArray(1);
		byte[] data2 = msg.GetByteArray(2);
		byte[] data3 = msg.GetByteArray(3);
		byte[] data4 = msg.GetByteArray(4);

		// you are supposed to know the type of values send so you can
		// just as well use the generic version of Deserialize here
		int intVal = gs.Deserialize<int>(data0);
		string strVal = gs.Deserialize<string>(data1);
		Vector3 v3Val = gs.Deserialize<Vector3>(data2);

		// for the array and list there are seperate functions to use
		int[] intArr = gs.DeserializeArray<int>(data3);
		List<float> floatList = gs.DeserializeList<float>(data4);

		// but you can do this too ...
		int intVal2 = (int)gs.Deserialize(data0, typeof(int));
		string strVa2 = (string)gs.Deserialize(data1, typeof(string));
	}
}

plyoung/Simple-Serialiser

Simple-Serialiser

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