On ‎30‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 8:04 AM, cozzie said:

Thanks guys and sorry for the late response. I've adder the ReadXxx and WriteXxx helpers, the code's much cleaner now. I decided to stick with writing/ casting only the individual standard types (float, uint etc).

What I didn't figure out yet is how I can read a full chunk of data and "place" that in a std::vector. For example, say that I know that there are 100 floats in the file, would it be possible to read them all at once and place them in a std::vector<float> (with a size of 100)?

I'd add methods for doing that to you serializer/deserializer classes:

class Deserializer {
    /* ... */
  
    void readFloatArray(std::vector<float>* v) {
        size_t arraySize = readUInt();  // we saved the size so we know how much to read
        v->resize(arraySize);
        for (size_t i = 0; i < arraySize; ++i)
            v->push_back(readFloat());
    }
  
    /* ... */
};

class Serializer {
    /* ... */
    
    void writeFloatArray(const std::vector<float>& v) {
        writeUInt(v.size());  // save size, for reading back
        for (size_t i = 0; i < v.size(); ++i)
            writeFloat(v[i]);
    }
  
    /* ... */
};

Then, to read the 100 floats:

File file;
file.open("whatever.dat");

std::vector<float> myFloats;
file.readFloatArray(&myFloats);