Android Question Serializing / Deserializing Basic4Android <-> .NET

[wl]

Hi,

I know you can serialize and deserialize entire Basic4Android objects (stream WriteObject).

I would like to be able to serialize an object in Basic4Android and deserialize in C# (and visa versa). Would it be possible ? Wat is the internal structure of a serialized stream (which you can also compress ...), or would I need to stick to JSon or XML ?

Thanks

 

[Erel]

It is not possible to share a serialized object with a .Net app. You can however create a simple custom serializer that converts the object to a stream of bytes. The complexity of such implementation depends on your object structure.

 

[wl]

Hi Erel,

In fact this is the way I'm currently doing this, but I had a look at the internals of the RandomAccessFile classand it should be possible somehow to port this code to .NET ? I don't know whether others might be interested as well.
Wim

 

[Erel]

Generally speaking it is not possible as some of the objects are "Java serialized". It may work in some specific cases. However it will be easier to just implement a custom serialization.

 

[wl]

ok thanks for the info Erel