What's the best way to send a collection of objects?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I’m new NetworkComms.net and so far, I really like it.

I need to send a collection of objects. Basically a file list.

So I created a FileDetails object
[ProtoContract]
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class FileDetails
{
[ProtoMember(1)]
[JsonProperty]
public string FileName { get; set; }
…
}

but I don’t know the best way to send a List<FileDetails> or honestly ANY way to send them.

I tried
…
public List<FileDetails> _files;
[ProtoMember(4, OverwriteList = true)]
private IEnumerable<FileDetails> Files
{
get { return _files; }
set
{
_files = new List<FileDetails>();
_files.AddRange(value);
}
}
…

but when I sent the message, the connection at the other end closes.

I looked thru your sample code and didn’t find a collection inside a message anywhere.

Can you point me in the right direction?

thanks

[Anonymous]

I found the answer. Don’t use collections, use plain old arrays ([])
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10510589/how-to-serialize-arrays

here’s an example:
[ProtoMember(4)]
[JsonProperty]
public FileDetails[] Files;

hope it helps others. 🙂

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