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jefffhaynes / BinarySerializer

A declarative serialization framework for controlling formatting of data at the byte and bit level using field bindings, converters, and code.
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FieldLengthAttribute where length value includes size of field that stores length #228

Open lOlbas opened 10 months ago

lOlbas commented 10 months ago

Consider the following payload:

          00 01 02 03 04 05
00000000  06 00 01 02 03 04

First two bytes indicate the size of the entire payload, not just the data after it. This is the way I would describe this message:

public class RootEvent
{
    [FieldOrder(1)]
    public ushort DataLength;

    [FieldOrder(2)]
    [FieldLength(nameof(DataLength), -sizeof(ushort)] // Second parameter is "adjustment" for the actual length
    public object Data;
}

However I don't seem to find a way to implement something similar using this library, did I miss something? 🤔