[TLukar]

Hi, i am using outbuffer to create the raw data im going to write to a file. But i have stumbled upon many things while trying to write the data inside this class into a file. So i would like to know if there is a way to convert a class into an array of bytes to directly send to the outbuffer. If not just tell me.

[kris]

D does not have a native capability for doing that.

However, you'll probably find just what you need in the Mango.io package (via dsource) ... take a look at the example "pickle.d" over here: http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/mango/trunk/example/pickle.d

Note that Mango allows you to extend the IO system by binding your own classes to it (via the interfaces IReadable/IWritable, illustrated in that example), which makes it really easy to encapsulate the serialization & deserialization details. Unlike Phobos, Mango.io supports all of the native D types, along with their basic array variations.

You might also find some value in the Mango.cache.VirtualCache, which manages a cache of D classes while spooling overflow entries to the file-system (and subsequently resurrecting them). It will, at least, show you another way to perform Mango pickling

Bon Chance;