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I am recieving binary stream from an application I am running in Python.
From the binary stream, I want to create a C# object that is inside the stream in byte array.
How do I deserialise the object and retrieve the object from the binary stream?
We can ignore that it’s a python application. I am more interested in how binary streaming works.
Just to add you a little general info:
In C#/.Net there’s a general approach to serialize objects to NOT a binary form, because a binary form needs a lot of protocol-like headers to – note – include the metadata, and this causes the receiver to have to know the .Net/CLR inner structure very well.
Instead, today, the objects are usually serialized to XML (when type information is crucial) or JSON formats (when only data matters), so that any receiver may read them quite easily, and more often – any 3rd party may easily generate new object-like data that our application may “just deserialize”, regardless of who generated it and on what platform.
However, binary serialization is still used. XML/JSON data, even if compressed, is still usually larger than the binary image. However, the binary serialization is strictly used when we want the data to not be published to the outside world, or if we somehow magically know that it will be only processed on .Net with use of our assemblies.