Serializing dynamic array of root elements (C#)

[Vladimír Kružliak]

Hello,

I have a business requirement to serialize unknown number of messages into file stream. I would like to use flatbuffers to serialize messages to byte array and append this array to file stream. Then process next message. At some point I want to read the file and sequentially deserialize them. 

Is there a way to do this using only flatbuffers api? Or do i need to introduce some kind of protocol?

Thank you for any advice,

Vladimir

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

There's no built-in way to do this with FlatBuffers yet.

I recommend simply pre-fixing each buffer with a 32bit length.

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[Vladimír Kružliak]

Thanks for quick reply, Wouter. 

Yes, that is an option I thought of as well. I just wanted to check, if flatbuffers can handle it with its own api. Anyway, thanks again.

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

btw, added some functionality to make size pre-fixing part of FlatBuffers: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/commit/486c048a0d5963f83f3a0d6957e4dde41602e2e7