C # send transmission object over network?

Question

I am working on a server / client project. The client will request information from the server, and the server will send them back to the client.

The information may be a string, number, array, list, arraylist, or any other object. The solution I have found so far is to serialize the object (data) and send it, and then de-serialize it for processing.

Here is the server code:

public void RunServer(string SrvIP,int SrvPort)
    {
        try
        {
            var ipAd = IPAddress.Parse(SrvIP);


            /* Initializes the Listener */
            if (ipAd != null)
            {
                var myList = new TcpListener(ipAd, SrvPort);

                /* Start Listeneting at the specified port */
                myList.Start();

                Console.WriteLine("The server is running at port "+SrvPort+"...");
                Console.WriteLine("The local End point is  :" + myList.LocalEndpoint);
                Console.WriteLine("Waiting for a connection.....");


                while (true)
                {
                    Socket s = myList.AcceptSocket();
                    Console.WriteLine("Connection accepted from " + s.RemoteEndPoint);

                    var b = new byte[100];
                    int k = s.Receive(b);
                    Console.WriteLine("Recieved...");
                    for (int i = 0; i < k; i++)
                        Console.Write(Convert.ToChar(b[i]));
                    string cmd = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(b);
                    if (cmd.Contains("CLOSE-CONNECTION"))
                        break;
                    var asen = new ASCIIEncoding();

                    // sending text 
                    s.Send(asen.GetBytes("The string was received by the server."));

                    // the line bove to be modified to send serialized object?


                    Console.WriteLine("\nSent Acknowledgement");
                    s.Close();
                    Console.ReadLine();
                }
                /* clean up */

                myList.Stop();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Error..... " + e.StackTrace);
        }
    }

here is the client code that should return an object

public object runClient(string SrvIP, int SrvPort)
        {
            object obj = null;
            try
            {
                var tcpclnt = new TcpClient();
                Console.WriteLine("Connecting.....");

                tcpclnt.Connect(SrvIP, SrvPort);
                // use the ipaddress as in the server program


                Console.WriteLine("Connected");
                Console.Write("Enter the string to be transmitted : ");

                var str = Console.ReadLine();
                Stream stm = tcpclnt.GetStream();

                var asen = new ASCIIEncoding();
                if (str != null)
                {
                    var ba = asen.GetBytes(str);
                    Console.WriteLine("Transmitting.....");

                    stm.Write(ba, 0, ba.Length);
                }

                var bb = new byte[2000];

                var k = stm.Read(bb, 0, bb.Length);

                string data = null;

                for (var i = 0; i < k; i++)
                    Console.Write(Convert.ToChar(bb[i]));

                //convert to object code ??????

                Console.ReadLine();

                tcpclnt.Close();
            }

            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error..... " + e.StackTrace);
            }

            return obj;

        }

I need to know a good serialize / serialize and how to integrate it into the solution above.

Answer 1

Update (after 8 years)

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Windows Communication Foundation? WCF API, . WCF /.

WCF, Binary Serialization.

:

private Stream SerializeMultipleObjects()
{ 
    // Initialize a storage medium to hold the serialized object
    Stream stream = new MemoryStream();

    // Serialize an object into the storage medium referenced by 'stream' object.
    BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

    // Serialize multiple objects into the stream
    formatter.Serialize( stream, obOrders );
    formatter.Serialize( stream, obProducts );
    formatter.Serialize( stream, obCustomers );

    // Return a stream with multiple objects
    return stream; 
}

private void DeSerializeMultipleObject(Stream stream)
{
    // Construct a binary formatter
    BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

    // Deserialize the stream into object
    Orders     obOrders    = (Orders)formatter.Deserialize( stream );
    Products   obProducts  = (Products)formatter.Deserialize( stream );
    Customers  obCustomers = (Customer)formatter.Deserialize( stream );
}

.

-Pavel

Answer 2

json, JavaScriptSerializer. . System.Web.Extensions.dll

:.

var js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var data = js.Deserialize<MyClass>(receivedString);

var js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var serializedData = js.Serialize(dataObject);