What is the best way to Deserialize “Serialized Protobuf” in objective-c which is generated using C# protobuf-net

Question

I have a Class that contains objects, arrays, int, and string too.

public class Template
    {
        [ProtoMember(1)]
        public string name;
        [ProtoMember(2)]
        public tempClass contour;
        [ProtoMember(3)]
        .
        .
        .
  }

//And here is the Serializing code (Using protobuf-net)
 using (var file = File.Create("Templates.bin"))
            {
                Serializer.Serialize<Template[]>(file, tempArray);
            }

I know it can be deserializeable using Objective-c. i tried some solution but did not succeeded yet.

have anyone done this before? is that better to use XML instead of Protobuf?

Answer 1

That will map to (in .proto terms):

message templateWrapper {
    repeated template items = 1;
}
message template {
    optional string name = 1;
    optional tempClass contour = 2;
    // ...
}
message tempClass {
    // ...
}

And then deserialize as a single templateWrapper, which will have multiple items.

Note that all of the .proto schema except for the templateWrapper should be available via Serializer.GetProto<Template>().