I want to be able to save and load all attributes of this PlayerStats class to and from a binary file. Do Weapon and PlayerClass need to be serializable too?
The weapons array contains classes that inherit from Weapon such as Pistol and Rifle. Would they also need to be serializable?
[Serializable]
public class PlayerStats : Saveable<PlayerStats> {
private Weapon[] weapons;
private PlayerClass activeClass;
// ...
}
I've already done this successfully with another class, but the only attribute the class had was a dictionary.
edit, this is what I'm trying to use to serialize that works with my other more simple class but not the PlayerStats class:
public abstract class Saveable<T> {
#region BinarySaveable
public virtual void saveInstanceToBinaryFile(T instance, string fileName) {
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter ();
Stream stream = new FileStream (fileName, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);
formatter.Serialize(stream, instance);
stream.Close ();
}
public virtual T loadInstanceFromBinaryFile(string fileName) {
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter ();
Stream stream = new FileStream (fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read);
T instance = (T)formatter.Deserialize (stream);
stream.Close ();
return instance;
}
#endregion
If this were Java I'd probably be able to just use the WriteObject(Object obj) method.
