Re: Cerealed v0.6.1: even less boilerplate for binary serialization

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 03-Aug-2015 12:27, Dicebot wrote:

On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 09:21:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:

The summary is you can now write this:

    struct UdpPacket {
        static struct Header {
            ushort srcPort;
            ushort dstPort;
            ushort length;
            ushort checksum;
        }

        enum headerSize = unalignedSizeof!Header;
        alias header this;

        Header header;
        @LengthInBytes("length - headerSize") ubyte[] data;
    }

This deserialization will be identical to casting like this, right? (Not
trying to diminish your work, just making sure I get semantics :))

align(1)
struct UdpPacket
{
     align(1)
     static struct Header {
         ushort srcPort;
         ushort dstPort;
         ushort length;
         ushort checksum;
     }

     Header   header;
     ubyte[0] data;
}

// ...

auto packet = cast(UdpPacket*) raw_data.ptr;

Plus/minus network byte order.

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Dmitry Olshansky