// creates a list of field values from the given type.
// stream needs to be positioned at the beginning of the entry.
private DBRow ReadFields(BinaryReader reader, TypeInfo ttype, bool skipHeader = true)
{
if (!skipHeader)
{
readHeader(reader);
}
List <FieldInstance> entry = new List <FieldInstance>();
for (int i = 0; i < ttype.Fields.Count; ++i)
{
FieldInfo field = ttype.Fields[i];
FieldInstance instance = null;
try {
instance = field.CreateInstance();
instance.Decode(reader);
entry.Add(instance);
} catch (Exception x) {
throw new InvalidDataException(string.Format
("Failed to read field {0}/{1}, type {3} ({2})", i, ttype.Fields.Count, x.Message, instance.Info.TypeName));
}
}
DBRow result = new DBRow(ttype, entry);
return(result);
}
public static string decodeSafe(FieldInfo d, BinaryReader reader)
{
string result = "failure";
try {
FieldInstance field = d.CreateInstance();
field.Decode(reader);
result = field.Value;
} catch (Exception x) {
#if DEBUG
// Console.WriteLine(x);
#endif
result = x.Message.Replace("\n", "-");
}
return(result);
}