network
Class ISerializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

CNetMessage, jsval_ser

class ISerializable

An interface for serializable objects. For a serializable object to be usable as a network message field, it must have a constructor without arguments.

Deserialize

public virtual const u8* Deserialize( const u8* buffer, const u8* end )= 0;

Deserialize the object (i.e. read in data from the buffer and initialize the object's fields). Note that it is up to the deserializer to detect errors in data format.

Parameters:

buffer - A pointer pointing to the start of the serialized data.

end - A pointer to the end of the message.

GetSerializedLength

public virtual uint GetSerializedLength() const = 0;

Return the length of the serialized form of this object

Serialize

public virtual u8* Serialize( u8* buffer ) const = 0;

Serialize the object into the passed buffer.

Returns:

a pointer to the location in the buffer right after the serialized object