A Fast/Compact Serialization Framework

/*

OpenNxSerialization Framework
Copyright (C) 2006 - 2007 "NeXtreme Innovations"
[The Next Xtreme in ingenuity]

This program is free software, distributed under the terms of
the GNU General Public License Version 2. See the License file
at the top of the source tree.

*/
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using NeXtreme.OpenNxSerialization;
using NeXtreme.OpenNxSerialization.IO;
using NeXtreme.OpenNxSerialization.Surrogates;

namespace NeXtreme.CommonTypes
{
    /*       How to use an INxSerializable        */

    /// <summary>
    /// Demomstrates a custom type that implements <see cref="INxSerializable"/>.
    /// </summary>
    [Serializable]
    public class SampleINxSerializableClass : INxSerializable
    {
        public const short FIXED_ID = 0xFee;

        private string id;
        private SampleInternalType nested = new SampleInternalType();
        private Hashtable table = new Hashtable(11);

        /// <summary> Default constructor is not mandatory for types that implement INxSerializable.</summary>
        public SampleINxSerializableClass() { }

        public SampleINxSerializableClass(String title)
        {
            id = title;
            table[1] = new SampleInternalType();
            table[2] = new SampleInternalType();
            table[3] = new SampleInternalType();
            table[4] = new SampleInternalType();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Implementation of INxSerializable.Serialize
        /// </summary>
        void INxSerializable.Serialize(INxBinaryWriter w)
        {
            w.WriteObject(id);
            w.WriteObject(nested);
            w.WriteObject(table);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Implementation of INxSerializable.Deserialize
        /// </summary>
        void INxSerializable.Deserialize(INxBinaryReader r)
        {
            id = (String)r.ReadObject();
            nested = (SampleInternalType)r.ReadObject();
            table = (Hashtable)r.ReadObject();
        }
    }
}