Transfer ArrayList client

[Anonymous]

Hello, is it possible to transfer to the client ArrayList?

send to the client:
NetworkComms.SendObject("Message", serverIP, serverPort, list_servers);

client:
NetworkComms.AppendGlobalIncomingPacketHandler<ArrayList>("Message", PrintIncomingMessage);

error log:

[Anonymous]

Heya KyKyIIIKuH,

Welcome to our forums and thank-you for your interest in our network library.

ArrayList can not be supported as it is not a strongly typed object. The deserialiser must know exactly what the incoming type is otherwise it throws the error you are seeing. For the same reasons you could not send/receive a List<object>.

My recommendation would be to:

1. Use a strongly typed object.

or

2. Create a wrapper for your Arraylist and write a manual serialisation / serialisation step for the Arraylist part. We do a similar thing in this tutorial but using an image object instead.

If you have any further questions please feel free to post back.
Regards,
Marc

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