#region CmdMessenger - MIT - (c) 2013 Thijs Elenbaas.
/*
  CmdMessenger - library that provides command based messaging

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
  a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
  "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
  permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
  the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
  included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  Copyright 2013 - Thijs Elenbaas
*/
#endregion

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace CommandMessenger
{
    /// <summary> Helper object to convert structures to byte arrays and vice versa.  </summary>
    class StructSerializer
    {
        /// <summary> Convert an object to a byte array. </summary>
        /// <param name="obj"> The object. </param>
        /// <returns> The byte array. </returns>
        public static byte[] ObjectToByteArray(object obj)
        {
            var length    = Marshal.SizeOf(obj);
            var byteArray = new byte[length];
            var arrayPointer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(length);
            Marshal.StructureToPtr(obj, arrayPointer, true);
            Marshal.Copy(arrayPointer, byteArray, 0, length);
            Marshal.FreeHGlobal(arrayPointer);
            return byteArray;
        }

        /// <summary> Convert an byte array to an object. </summary>
        /// <param name="bytearray"> The bytearray. </param>
        /// <param name="obj">       [in,out] The object. </param>
        public static void ByteArrayToObject(byte[] bytearray, ref object obj)
        {
            var length  = Marshal.SizeOf(obj);
            var arrayPointer = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(length);
            Marshal.Copy(bytearray, 0, arrayPointer, length);
            obj = Marshal.PtrToStructure(arrayPointer, obj.GetType());
            Marshal.FreeHGlobal(arrayPointer);
        }
    }
}