private static Encoding Get_Encoder(String_Encoding string_encoding, bool swap_endianness)
{
//get the right encoder, also keeping byte ordering into account.
//this way there would be no need to individually flip characters as the encoder will take care of that
return(string_encoding == String_Encoding.UTF8 ? Encoding.UTF8
: swap_endianness?Encoding.BigEndianUnicode
: Encoding.Unicode);
}
public void Deserialize_String(out string text, String_Encoding encoding)
{
byte[] buffer;
Deserialize(out buffer);
if (buffer != null)
{
var string_encoder = Get_Encoder(encoding, swap_endianness);
text = string_encoder.GetString(buffer);
}
else
{
text = null;
}
}
public void Serialize_String(string text, String_Encoding encoding)
{
var string_encoder = Get_Encoder(encoding, swap_endianness);
if (text != null)
{
//NOTE: encoder handling byte ordering
var buffer = string_encoder.GetBytes(text);
Serialize(buffer);
}
else
{
stream.WriteByte(0);
}
}
