Serialization is the process by which an object is converted into a format that can be stored and later retrieved.
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Byte array to floating point such as FPE2 in Java
Apple's System Management Controller uses FPE2 and SP78 as floating-point formats.
While writing a Java library that that interfaces with the SMC, I ported someone's C function to convert read a ...
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Data marshaling wrapper for a TCP server
After a lot of research, I created this wrapper which I think fits very well to my needs. My project is a TCP server and I will be using this wrapper every time the server receives a packet. ...
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Generated serialization code
CGbR project
I am currently working on a project that generates code from classes. The idea is to achieve maximum performance by replacing reflection use cases with fast, generated code.
Current ...
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Something to store any (standard) data in python
I decided to try make my own way to save normal python data yesterday after coming across the minecraft NBT format, it's more limited than cPickle but appears to produce shorter results and so far ...
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Create Xml to string serializer
I don't want to serialize everything. I created a custom attribute DoNotSerializeAttribute. If some property in info contain ...
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Object parser in C++
Consider the following contrived data type:
Building: int age, char* location, float ...
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Saving the state of a ViewModel
I've the following scenario, I've got some viewmodel that need to persist their state on disk.
I've defined a custom attribute as:
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Vigenère cipher as an IO filter
I implemented a Vigenere encoding and decoding class. Ideally, the program should be able to take any abritrary file, read into an array of byte, and decode it.
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A Dynamic CSV Serializer
I made a dynamic CSV serializer as a learning challenge a while back, I'm hoping to get my code picked apart so I can learn what I can do better.
This is a bit long, so I wouldn't expect anyone to ...
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Reading bytes from packet
I have a device I connect to on TCP socket. I send it a message with what I want and it sends back all sorts of useful information:
Header:
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Reusable REST service class for Angular2 in TypeScript
I am creating an Angular 2 web application using TypeScript. This application performs REST requests to a REST "service". For each REST resource in my service I create a separate "Service" class in ...
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Reading many kinds of numbers from a byte buffer
I've been trying to find a way to collapse all these methods into one.
Current I have these methods
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Polymorphic TLV serialization
Inspired by this question I decided to write an alternative that uses polymorhphism and a Factory pattern. The code works for the subset of implemented types, namely ...
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TLV implementation in C++
I tried implementing TLV(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value).
Actually my implementation is more than TLV because it supports additional "Tag" elements (which you can use for naming ...
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Type to byte array conversion in Swift
I need the byte representation of a given type, especially double, float, int8, etc.
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Querying Facebook for details of a user's OAuth token
This class exposes the public method getAuthToken which takes a user's Facebook OAuth token as an input parameter and queries Facebook for information about it - ...
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Updating resources while avoiding race conditions
I am writing a utility class for a game client. This class has two main functions: connect to a game server and retrieve the current game revision, and retrieve a "recipe", which is basically ...
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Advanced formatting with argument passing
I want to customise how my objects are printed using the .format() function.
I have two problems to make that happen in clear and concise way. But since the second ...
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Format of hexeditor
Is there a cleaner way to write this code? It's the start of a hexeditor I'm creating.
I'm aware that the variables aren't descriptive, this is just a test run for when I imbed it into a File ...
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Which loop to use for multiple if statements which serialize objects
I have figured out how to serialize multiple objects, however I am utterly convinced I can use some kind of loop for the if statements below, to avoid duplication. Please can someone advise how I ...
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Serializing multiple objects to a file
I am very new to Java and although my code works, I know that it must be possible to write this using fewer lines of code. I am serializing multiple objects, eventually I will look into serializing to ...
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Dynamic CSV Formatter
I made a dynamic CSV formatter as a personal challenge after having to hardcode a behavior to convert some data to CSV earlier. You input any List that contains supported types as properties (all ...
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Generic methods for serializing and deserialzing xml files using streams followup
Recently I asked this question: Generic methods for serializing and deserialzing xml files using streams
However it has come to my attention that this gives me an (harmless) exception when trying to ...
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WebService --> XML Cache Repository
I'm working on a small application that uses a WebService to get meta-data about television episodes. What I'd like to do is start building out a local cache of the series so that I can reduce the ...
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__repr__ for a binary tree whose constructor has default arguments
I recently have been working on a BinaryTree class, and looked into creating a proper __repr__ which when eval'ed would recreate ...
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Better way to deep copy than this? How can I make it generic by `Collection` type?
Could I make this method for deep copy generic to the Collection type?
That method is so simple and I can't imagine ever needing to change it, so maybe I should ...
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Pool readers and streams with Json.NET
This code is built on Json.NET and gets called hundreds of times per second. My data starts in an ArraySegment<byte>. I wrap that in a ...
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Numbers to byte-arrays and back
As the title explains, this is a series of extension methods that convert certain numeric types to and from byte-arrays, for certain actions which work better on byte-array types than numeric types.
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Three ways to read a number for a BitInputStream
I'm trying to learn how to write more readable code without introducing easily avoidable performance killers.
This is part of a BitInputStream Java class I'm ...
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Little/Big Endian conversion
I wanted to make sure that my code is properly converting between the two endians.
Here is the code where I read in an integer:
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Converting a SecureString to a byte array
Does it allocates something that hasn't freed? Something that remains in memory? Except result byte array, ofc.
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Re-use of read/write object , for multiple objects
I have read a lot about serialization and I cannot figure out how I am able to serialize then deserialize multiple objects. I am very much a newb to Java, so please bear with me.
My code currently ...
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Converting string to dict using Python ast library
I have been trying to convert a string of dictionary objects as given below
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Menu to save and load football team information
I am a newb, and whilst I'm sure my formatting can be improved, I really want to know, how I can re-use my code for this simple program. The objective is simple, football game with a menu, that allows ...
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Racetrack game with reading the track from a file
For this community challenge I made the racetrack game. I'm reading the race data from a text file, which is available here. This is only playable by entering the velocity at the console.
I've got ...
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XML serialization helper class
Yesterday was JSON serialization, today is XML serialization.
I've taken some of the suggestions from there and made modifications, as well as making other modifications that were not suggested but ...
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JSON serialization helper class
I wrote this class to one-line all my JSON serialization, and I'm curious of any input on it.
It's only responsible for serializing/deserializing any type to/from JSON.
The comments and code are ...
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Binary serialization library
I am currently working on a binary serialization library written in C++11 for a personal project. I'd really like to have a review about my design, my implementation and everything else. The library ...
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Conversion of hexadecimal string to string
Given a C# string which is a set of hexadecimal numbers such as:
string HexString = "202048656c6c6f20576f726c64313233212020";
Where those hexadecimal numbers ...
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Fastest De-/Serialise struct in .Net
I wrote this code to De- and serialise structures afap using IL generation (comments describes C# analogue). What can be improved here?
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Serialize/deserialize objects to and from database concurrently
I have a class which runs as spring bean in the container and its purpose is data persistence. In the overriden method ...
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Properly managing a collection from deserialized XML file throughout app's lifetime
I'm developing a WinForms app to manage some settings and profiles for multiple video games. The list of video games is specified by the user, and I'm trying to figure out how to properly maintain ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up 3
See the previous iteration. I have incorporated the answer of h.j.k.. Now I have:
LineStringSerializationFactory.java:
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up 2
See the previous iteration. See the next iteration.
I emphasized the fact that serialization routine may not return a string with new line character by using more or less explicit identifier. Moved ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java - follow-up
See the previous and initial iteration.
See the next iteration.
I have mainly refactored the code and made it a little bit robust (if serialization of a single object produces a string with new line ...
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A tiny library for textual serialization of lists in Java
Note: see the next iteration.
I have this tiny library for (de)serializing lists of objects. The requirement is that each object's state may be represented textually as a single line of text. Later ...
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Persist values for a known set of keys in Python
Use case: I sometimes write programs that want to store a little state between runs, e.g., "What was the last file selected last time this program ran?" I wanted a convenient way to track this state. ...
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Serializable Queue header only library
I was hoping someone could check the library I 'm working on to see if they could give any suggestions. My biggest issue right now is getting tuple to work with more than just the basic types and I ...
