Rebuilding a Data Object from RTByteBlock

C++

All Versions

The following code works in both SimulationRTS and TargetRTS. This is a function called 'unpackData'. It returns an RTDataObject * (user must manage the memory allocated for this), and takes an RTByteBlock as a parameter:

RTDataObject *unpackData( RTByteBlock &blk )
{
  //This function rebuilds a data object from
  //a string representation (ascii encoding)
  //using built-in RTS functions.
  
  //You can do your own, of course, if you
  //have different encoding/decoding schemes.
  //This versions works in both SimulationRTS
  //and MicroRTS.
  
  char *databuf = (char *)(void *)blk;
  
  RTDataObject *obj = 0;
  int bufsize = strlen(databuf) + 1;
  
  #ifdef __RTSInternal__ //SimulationRTS version
    RTPacket packet(bufsize);
  
    strcpy(packet.value(),databuf);
    obj = packet.parse_object2();
  
  #else //MicroRTS version
    RTAsciiDecoding decoder(databuf, bufsize);
    obj = decoder.getNew();
  
  #endif
  
  //receiver is responsible for deallocating object
  return obj;
  
}