I have a struct containing a struct and an NSObject
that I want to serialize into an NSData
object:
struct Packet {
var name: String
var index: Int
var numberOfPackets: Int
var data: NSData
}
var thePacket = Packet(name: name, index: i, numberOfPackets: numberOfPackets, data: packetData)
How do I best serialize the Packet into an NSData
, and how do I best deserialize it?
Using
var bufferData = NSData(bytes: & thePacket, length: sizeof(Packet))
of only gives me the pointers of name and data. I was exploring NSKeyedArchiver
, but then I'd have to make Packet an object, and I'd prefer to keep it a struct.
Cheers
Nik
Not really getting any feedback, this is the solution I ended up with:
encode()
and decode()
functions for my structInt
to Int64
so the Int
has the same size on 32-bit and 64-bit platformsData
, but only Int64
Here is my code, I would be very grateful for your feedback, especially if there are less cumbersome ways to do this:
public struct Packet {
var name: String
var index: Int64
var numberOfPackets: Int64
var data: NSData
struct ArchivedPacket {
var index : Int64
var numberOfPackets : Int64
var nameLength : Int64
var dataLength : Int64
}
func archive() -> NSData {
var archivedPacket = ArchivedPacket(index: Int64(self.index), numberOfPackets: Int64(self.numberOfPackets), nameLength: Int64(self.name.lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)), dataLength: Int64(self.data.length))
var metadata = NSData(
bytes: &archivedPacket,
length: sizeof(ArchivedPacket)
)
let archivedData = NSMutableData(data: metadata)
archivedData.appendData(name.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: false)!)
archivedData.appendData(data)
return archivedData
}
func unarchive(data: NSData!) -> Packet {
var archivedPacket = ArchivedPacket(index: 0, numberOfPackets: 0, nameLength: 0, dataLength: 0)
let archivedStructLength = sizeof(ArchivedPacket)
let archivedData = data.subdataWithRange(NSMakeRange(0, archivedStructLength))
archivedData.getBytes(&archivedPacket)
let nameRange = NSMakeRange(archivedStructLength, Int(archivedPacket.nameLength))
let dataRange = NSMakeRange(archivedStructLength + Int(archivedPacket.nameLength), Int(archivedPacket.dataLength))
let nameData = data.subdataWithRange(nameRange)
let name = NSString(data: nameData, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) as! String
let theData = data.subdataWithRange(dataRange)
let packet = Packet(name: name, index: archivedPacket.index, numberOfPackets: archivedPacket.numberOfPackets, data: theData)
return packet
}
}