convert dictionary or list to byte[]

Question

Ok, i\'ve seen many similar questions both on here and unity forums asking about converting from one format to another. I\'ve got a (hopefully) simple question that i just c

Answer 1

You may want to try serialization.

var binFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
var mStream = new MemoryStream();
binFormatter.Serialize(mStream, myObjToSerialize);

//This gives you the byte array.
mStream.ToArray();

And then if you want to turn the byte array back into an object:

var mStream = new MemoryStream();
var binFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();

// Where 'objectBytes' is your byte array.
mStream.Write (objectBytes, 0, objectBytes.Length);
mStream.Position = 0;

var myObject = binFormatter.Deserialize(mStream) as YourObjectType;

Answer 2

Converting data into byte stream (and back) is called serialization (and deserialization).

You can use the BinaryFormatter class to do so.