I have these two functions which read a stream into a buffer and loads it into the given struct.
TestStruct1 ReadRecFromStream2(Stream stream)
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(TestStruct1))];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, 128);
GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(buffer, GCHandleType.Pinned);
try
{
return (TestStruct1)Marshal.PtrToStructure(handle.AddrOfPinnedObject(), typeof(TestStruct1));
}
finally
{
handle.Free();
}
}
TestStruct2 ReadRecFromStream(Stream stream)
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(TestStruct2))];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, 128);
GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(buffer, GCHandleType.Pinned);
try
{
return (TestStruct2)Marshal.PtrToStructure(handle.AddrOfPinnedObject(), typeof(TestStruct2));
}
finally
{
handle.Free();
}
}
I'd like to combine these into a generic function to take either of the structs, I'm just unsure what the proper way to do this is.
Is this the correct way?
private T ReadRecFromStream<T>(Stream stream)
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(T))];
stream.Read(buffer, 0, HeaderSize);
GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(buffer, GCHandleType.Pinned);
try
{
return (T)Marshal.PtrToStructure(handle.AddrOfPinnedObject(), typeof(T));
}
finally
{
handle.Free();
}
}