Cerealed v0.6.1: even less boilerplate for binary serialization

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 03-Aug-2015 12:27, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 09:21:50 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
>> The summary is you can now write this:
>>
>>     struct UdpPacket {
>>         static struct Header {
>>             ushort srcPort;
>>             ushort dstPort;
>>             ushort length;
>>             ushort checksum;
>>         }
>>
>>         enum headerSize = unalignedSizeof!Header;
>>         alias header this;
>>
>>         Header header;
>>         @LengthInBytes("length - headerSize") ubyte[] data;
>>     }
>>
>
> This deserialization will be identical to casting like this, right? (Not
> trying to diminish your work, just making sure I get semantics :))
>
> align(1)
> struct UdpPacket
> {
>      align(1)
>      static struct Header {
>          ushort srcPort;
>          ushort dstPort;
>          ushort length;
>          ushort checksum;
>      }
>
>      Header   header;
>      ubyte[0] data;
> }
>
> // ...
>
> auto packet = cast(UdpPacket*) raw_data.ptr;

Plus/minus network byte order.

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Dmitry Olshansky