/// <summary>
/// A method that deserializes a file on disk into
/// the Dictionary object it was originally
/// serialized from, and returns it.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="path">The filepath to the Dictionary you want
/// to deserialize.</param>
/// <returns>The deserialized dictionary.</returns>
public static BinarySerializableDictionary <TKey, TValue> Deserialize(string path)
{
BinarySerializableDictionary <TKey, TValue> dict = new BinarySerializableDictionary <TKey, TValue>();
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open))
{
dict = Serializer.Deserialize <BinarySerializableDictionary <TKey, TValue> >(stream);
}
return(dict);
}
/// <summary>
/// A method that takes the name of a file on disk,
/// and deserialises that into the KeyValueStore
/// member variable.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The name of the dictionary.</param>
/// <returns>
/// A queryresult on whether the operation succeeded or not.
/// </returns>
public QueryResult LoadStore(string name)
{
string filePath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["DataStoreFilePath"] + name;
try
{
KeyValueStore = BinarySerializableDictionary <string, string> .Deserialize(filePath);
return(new QueryResult("Success", null, null));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return(new QueryResult("Failed", e, null));
}
}
/// <summary>
/// A constructor that initialises the KeyValueStore member variable with
///a default capacity.
/// </summary>
public DataService()
{
KeyValueStore = new BinarySerializableDictionary <string, string>();
}