serialize list in a zip?

[frazan]

Hi,
I would like to solve a problem.
Normally in my code I use this:
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public void SaveFileCat(string path)
{
Stream myfile;
IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
if(File.Exists(path))
{
myfile = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Truncate, FileAccess.Write);
}
else
myfile = new FileStream(path, FileMode.CreateNew, FileAccess.Write);

formatter.Serialize(myfile, listCat);
myfile.Close();
}
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The problem:
serialized files could to be up to 1 MB long, it depend from archive lenght.

In #develop there's #ziplib, but I don't know how to make it,
or better, I tried to make it, but only with normal file is simple.
There are other ways to make it?

Thanks you
frazan

[Samuel R. Neff]

Since this is a single file that you have control over reading/writing
you can use GZipOutputStream to compress the data. Just change

formatter.Serialize(myfile, listCat);
myfile.Close();

to

Stream zs = new GZipOutputStream(myfile);
formatter.Serialize(zs, listCat);
zs.Close()

The change to the load routine is pretty much the same, just use
GZipInputStream wrapped around the file stream before passing to
Deserialize.

The docs that come with #ziplib may be a little light but they do have
examples of this.

HTH,

Sam
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:42:10 +0100, "frazan" <fr******@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,
I would like to solve a problem.
Normally in my code I use this:
----------------------------------------
public void SaveFileCat(string path)
{
Stream myfile;
IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
if(File.Exists(path))
{
myfile = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Truncate, FileAccess.Write);
}
else
myfile = new FileStream(path, FileMode.CreateNew, FileAccess.Write);

formatter.Serialize(myfile, listCat);
myfile.Close();
}
-------------------------------------------
The problem:
serialized files could to be up to 1 MB long, it depend from archive lenght.

In #develop there's #ziplib, but I don't know how to make it,
or better, I tried to make it, but only with normal file is simple.
There are other ways to make it?

Thanks you
frazan

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[frazan]

It's ok!!! :) Is two days that I put my head on the wall, and it's so
simple!!
I was testing MemoryStream but this bring me on wrong way, I obtain this
error:
"End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed".

Very very Thanks!!! If you come in Italy I will offer you a beer! :))

frazan

"Samuel R. Neff" <bl****@newsgroup.nospam> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:e1********************************@4ax.com...

Since this is a single file that you have control over reading/writing
you can use GZipOutputStream to compress the data. Just change

formatter.Serialize(myfile, listCat);
myfile.Close();

to

Stream zs = new GZipOutputStream(myfile);
formatter.Serialize(zs, listCat);
zs.Close()

The change to the load routine is pretty much the same, just use
GZipInputStream wrapped around the file stream before passing to
Deserialize.

The docs that come with #ziplib may be a little light but they do have
examples of this.