How to read bytes from Stream into Objects?

[Software2007]

I am sending data from mobile app to REST in binary format like this:

"firstname=Mike&lastname=Smith&..binary represenation for the image here.."

class Employee{
string firstname;
string lastname;
Stream photo;
}

public string PostMethod(Stream streamObj)
{
using (FileStream filetoUpload = new FileStream(filePath + filename, FileMode.Create))
{
byte[] byteArray = new byte[10000];
int bytesRead = 0;

           do
           {
               bytesRead = streamObj.Read(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
               if (bytesRead > 0)
               {
                   filetoUpload.Write(byteArray, 0, bytesRead);
               }
           }

           while (bytesRead > 0);
       }

       return "Uploaded " + filePath + filename;
   }

I do know how to get the contents of the Stream into a byte array. What do I need to do to be able to read the bytes from the StreamObj into the class? Some pseudo code would be helpful. employee.firstname = ... employee.lastname=... employee.photo=....

[Lost User]

First you need to split your array into sections as delineated by the & character. You can then convert the first two to properly encoded character strings using the System.Text.Encoding.GetChars()[^] method, and then split them based on the = character.

speaking as ...

[OriginalGriff]

Might not work - I think he needs to look a little more closely at his data. The third section is raw binary by my interpretation, so it probably shouldn't be in a string at all or he runs the risk of unicode conversion problems.

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[Lost User]

My suggestions were largely guesswork, but I wasn't proposing to convert section 3 to a string, just the first two.

speaking as ...

[Lost User]

Software2007 wrote:

I do know how to get the contents of the Stream into a byte array.

Google for Serialize/deserialize - takes only a few lines of code. You'll be wanting the BinaryFormatter.

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[Software2007]

OriginalGriff is correct that the image section is raw binary. So, what to do again?

[Lost User]

Serialize your employee, using the binaryformatter :) Serializing means that you'd encode it in a portable format. You can use different formatters, but the Xml-version doesn't sound too appropriate under these circumstances, hence the binaryformatter.

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[Software2007]

Can you elaborate a bit. So, I have a stream

"firstname=Mike&lastname=Smith&..binary represenation for the image here.."

in binary format.

[Serializable]
public class Employee {
Serialize()..
Deserialize()..
}

This sounds like I need a file for the serialization, but I thought this was memory data type of thing. Anyways, what after this, how do I read it in to the class members what I don't get? How do I go from Stream type which is sent to me to Employee? Note, stream comes from iphone app.