/// <summary>
/// Takes output generated by SerializeParameters(), deserializes it and assigns the values
/// to the Parameters
/// </summary>
/// <param name="parameters">An array of parameters to set with the new values</param>
/// <param name="data">Serialized values, as generated by the SerializeParameters() method</param>
public static void DeserializeParameters(Parameter[] parameters, byte[] data)
{
parameters = parameters.OrderBy(x => x.Index).ToArray();
string values = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data);
var items = values.Split(',');
var filtered = items.Where(x => x != null && x.Trim() != "").ToList();
var select = filtered.Select(x => Convert.ToDouble(x.Trim(), System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)).ToList();
if (select.Count != parameters.Length)
throw new Exception("Illegal program data. Number of parameters does not match");
for (int i = 0; i < parameters.Length; i++)
parameters[i].Value = select[i];
}
/// <summary>
/// Accepts an array of Parameters and returns their values in a serialized format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="parameters"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static byte[] SerializeParameters(Parameter[] parameters)
{
parameters = parameters.OrderBy(x => x.Index).ToArray();
string output = "";
foreach (var p in parameters)
output += p.Value.ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) + ", ";
return Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(output);
}
