Questions tagged [serialization]
Serialization is the process by which an object is converted into a format that can be stored and later retrieved.
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Packing and unpacking values in a buffer
I have to deal with raw memory manipulation. For that I wrote a function which stores data one after another, and another function which reads this data and stores it into variables.
More precisely:
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Wanted to eliminate the repetition in the classes created to reduce duplication
Can some one help me on how to eliminate repetition to reduce duplication score on the below classes created in the code
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Android app class serialization with static Load / Save method
This is a follow-up question for Android app class serialization. As forsvarir's updated answer mentioned "A static load that returns a new instance of a ...
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Android app class serialization
I am attempting to build an Android APP with the custom serializable class User. The public method Save is to save class ...
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De-/Serialization of structs representing TCP messages
I wrote two template functions to serialize and deserialize structs representing messages to be sent and received via a TCP socket:
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Sinclair Spectrum TAP file dumper
The other day, I had occasion to want to look into an ancient piece of Z80 software written for a Sinclair Spectrum computer. Software for this machine was typically saved to audio tape, and today ...
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Unity Static Singleton JSON Serialisation
I have a static PlayerData singleton which stores all the data for the player (gold, upgrades, heroes etc) but JsonUtility ...
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Struct Serialization using Unsafe Field
I want to use structs as a container for data packets for asynchronous networking in C#. Found out that you can create a union style struct without the need to mark the struct itself as unsafe--...
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constexpr Precalculate size of serialized data with templates and C++20 concepts
Im writing a serializer that will do serialization/deserialization as fast as possible, and that uses templates so that i dont have to create a ton of functions for every data structure,
This is the ...
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Simplify Generic Method
I am writing a GenericDeserializer for Apache Kafka. My class implements IDeserializer<T> from Confluent.Kafka.Net package....
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(de)serializing c++ object almost automagically
Here's one way to solve the serialization problem in c++20, using a json library:
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JSON serializable string enum in C# with generic JsonConverter
How can StringEnumeration be changed in the code below into a generic class, so that ConsensusState wouldn't need the ...
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How to properly decode a JSON dictionary into different Swift classes using Decodable and JSONDecoder?
Generally, the approach I've taken is to try calling container.decode from a decodable enum with its associated value returning ...
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Custom JsonConverter for class
Note that this is about System.Text.Json, not NewtonSoft.
The underlying issue that inspired this example is the problem of using different serialization on a particular property of a particular class ...
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Better way to Read /Write Memory<byte> to/from POCO
I am communicating with a machine that sends/received structured binary data to my netcore service. The machine supplier's new library uses Memory in their library's API.
I have written the following ...
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Reading and Storing Integer from Serial Monitor
Description
I wanted to understand how integers can be written and stored inside variables without the use of Serial.parseInt(). I couldn't find any code examples about this. Perhaps this is the ...
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Traffic Light which revolves around Serial Communication
Assignment description
This is the improved code for a question I've posted earlier. I'd like to receive feedback on an assignment which I'm currently working on. I have to make two traffic lights ...
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Feedback on Traffic Light which revolves around Serial Communication
Assignment description
I'd like to receive feedback on an assignment which I'm currently working on. I have to make two traffic lights which allow traffic to run smoothly. I'm using a master Arduino ...
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Serializing object graph to proprietary binary file
I'm creating a class library to read/write .3di files which are binary files describing 3D models for a video game. This review is for the write/serialization process.
I've mapped the different ...
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Convenience function to save and load pickle objects
I want to come up with a simple convenience function to save and load pickle objects. A secondary objective is to simply execute the function without the above function. I have come up with two ...
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User Management Program
Main Goal
My goal is to create a chat app for my company (they are all software developers). I first make a console version and if it is working fine, I will make a GUI version. The program will run ...
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C# Rest Client Benchmarking
I build a C# Rest Client library / framework. I noticed that it seemed to be significantly faster than RestSharp for GET at least. So, I decided to put together some benchmarks comparing it to other ...
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Getting a list of waypoints assuming that there is a map [closed]
I'm a beginner learning ROS. I'm developing an android application that will control my robot and that includes getting the list of waypoints to display it to my spinner. How do you get the list of ...
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Parse data into an array of structs
I'd had a hard time getting this to work. I’d like to parse a file containing data and copy this data into a struct.
The data file (test.dat) looks like this:
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F# XML Generation in .NET Core: XmlSerializer or XmlProvider
I am working on SEPA XML generator in F#.
I developed two solutions that are roughly equivalent, one relies on the XmlSerializer while the other relies on ...
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An imitation of reading a C Struct from binary file in python 2.7
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I need to read a binary file constructed by writing a Struct to it with Python. So I decided to write a simple wrapper using ...
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Hex string to Base64 in Haskell
This is my take on the first challenge on the cryptopals crypto challenges list. I think that i made it quite simple but i feel like it is possible to optimize it further. Any suggestion?
The code:
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Async Tcpwriter and Reader
I currently have a class that I want to serialize/deserialize messages sent to this socket.
My plan was to use Task.WhenAny() to monitor 2 tasks (Either watch ...
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Avoiding repetition when using the "snprintf idiom" to write text
I'm writing a function to stringify a nested struct. I'm using snprintf to pre-calculate how much space I'll need to allocate.
The problem is, it's extremely ...
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Sign-up serialization in Python [closed]
I built a small project using Django-Rest-Framework. Please comment on the best practice style for the code below, which will make it simpler.
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Deserializing response to correct type
I use this method to get either Customer or Account. The server will determine which type it is.
The response will have a property "Type": "Customer" or ...
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Converting hex strings to byte arrays and back to hex strings in Java
Here is my attempt at converting hex strings to byte arrays and converting byte arrays to hex strings:
net.coderodde.util.ByteStringConverter
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Indeterminate-length big-endian to little-endian conversion in Python
I have a need to convert wire encoding (big-endian) to little-endian in Python.
The conversion needs to happen as a separate function; I am not allowed to change the function that reads the byte ...
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Java objects for a network sniffer program
I'm working on a network sniffer program, whose structure uses 3 main classes:
Frame Class - One per monitored frame, holds reference to all the other sub frames
Parse Class - Holds the hex value of ...
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Convert characters to octal, binary, and integer
I have implemented a sample program that converts vector of characters to its integer representation depending on the bit size specified. I was hoping to get some input on how to simplify the sequence....
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Java code to convert BigDecimal to/from .NET decimal
Background
In many languages we have built-in data types for representing decimal floating point numbers. In .NET that's decimal, and in Java we have ...
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Unmanaged byte array to managed structure
I have a need to turn byte arrays into various structures.
First version:
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WebAPI: Async Filtering CSV content + Json/XML Serialization
I am coding a csv file filtering api in ASP.NET Core, which takes a csv file located at a given uri (and retrieved via the query string) convert the content to a collection of records, then apply a ...
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IEnumerable<T> async serialization
I am building some classes to serialize (in an async / await way) potentially pretty long ...
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Decoding assembly instructions in a Game Boy disassembler
I am coding a game boy disassembler in C++. The program (simplified here) converts a vector of byte into an assembly instruction and print it.
To do so, it iterates through the vector of bytes (char)...
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Reading sparse matrix from binary file
I have binary files containing sparse matrices. Their format is:
number of rows int
length of a row int
column index int
value float
Reading ...
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Deserializing an XML Object without Reflection / Meta-Programming
I need to deserialize an XML file, without using any sort of "reflection" (or meta-programming). Instead, I need to do it via a raw object, that knows of it's structure and can properly identify and ...
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Parsing Bitcoin binary data file with Python
The script parses Bitcoin database (blkXXXXX.dat) files directly from raw binary to txt human readable view. And I think about how to encrease the speed of processing.
Can anyone suggest how to ...
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Breaking a 32-bit value into bytes for an ArrayList
I am very new to Java and its collections and I'm trying to figure out "best" way to populate an ArrayList<Byte> in Java. In particular, I'm trying to take a ...
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Write byte array to end of file
I'm writing a byte array at the end of file. The code works fine, but can you please suggest performance improvements?
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Invocable callout(Post) from processbuilder
I am relatively new in making (invocable)callouts. My main concern is if I should be using smaller parts for example for the body and using a query only once in this case. Any suggestions would be ...
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Custom serialiser with object factory
A couple of years ago I wrote a serialisation library for my project. By the time it worked well, but recently I thought it could be modernised. Back then I needed something that looks similar to ...
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A little Python hex editor
First off
I'm quite new to Python, there will be a lot of messy/overcomplicated code, that's why I'm posting on this site.
This code is written in Python (2.7) using the Tkinter library.
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Serializable game loop thread
I have been working on a small game lately and I was tired of looking up and copy-pasting game loops so I tried to make one as you can see. It works perfectly so if you want to feel free to use it, ...
