I updated idl_gen_general.cpp to add support for generating a Get Bytes
method for a vector to the generated C# source code. Given a byte vector
field named Foo, a method named GetFooBytes() will be generated in the
C# source code that will return an ArraySegment<byte> value referencing
the vector data in the underlying ByteBuffer.
I added a method to Table.cs named __vector_as_arraysegment that is used
by the code generated by the change to the C# generator.
__vector_as_arraysegment will take the offset of the vector and will
return the ArraySegment<byte> value corresponding to the bytes that
store the vector data.
I updated FlatBuffersExampleTests.cs to add tests to validate my
implementation of Table.__vector_as_arraysegment. I added tests to
demonstrate that the bytes for the monster's name can be extracted from
the underlying byte array. I also added tests to show that
Table.__vector_as_arraysegment returns a null value if the vector is not
present in the FlatBuffer.
I used the updated flatc.exe program to regenerate the C# source files
for the MyGame example. The new Monster class includes the GetXXXBytes
methods to return the byte arrays containing data for vectors.
When accessing a union field, we should return the same object type
as was given to the method, i.e. the parameter should have a generic
type for any Table-derived type. This way, we do not need to make
superfluous casts (which also reduce type safety) like
var myUnionType = (MyUnionType)buff.GetUnionField(new MyUnionType());
when we can do just
var myUnionType = buff.GetUnionField(new MyUnionType());
Change-Id: Idac1b638e46cc50b1f2dc19f10741481202b1515
In C#, plain field accessors should not be nonparametric methods
but should be standard property getters.
The accessor methods with parameters were renamed to `GetXxx`
because a method cannot be named identically to a property.
Also, `ByteBuffer.Position`, `FlatBufferBuilder.Offset` and
`FlatBufferBuilder.DataBuffer` are now properties instead
of nonparametric accessor methods, for more idiomatic C# style.
This is a breaking change, all client C# code accessing these
fields needs to be changed (i.e. remove those `()` or add the
`Get` prefix).
Issue: #77
Change-Id: Iaabe9ada076e5ea2c69911cf6170fdda2df3487e
Also made the C# implementation support unsigned types, and
made it more like the Java version.
Bug: 17359988
Change-Id: If5305c08cd5c97f35426639516ce05e53bbec36c
Tested: on Linux and Windows.
Include C# codegen in flatc and .NET FlatBuffer access via the
FlatBufferBuilder class
Tested: on Windows.
Change-Id: If5228a8df60a10e0751b245c6c64530264ea2d8a
Michael Collins