Game Settings Deserializer

Game Settings Deserializer

Brett208 21 Oct 2016 06:40

Hey everyone,

I propose we just modify the Xevious settings deserializer for use in Blockade. This assumes the player manually edits the text document. We can write a simple serializer to edit the data if we get far enough into the UI programming.

It is called something like this:

private ConfigFileDeserializer configDeserializer = new ConfigFileDeserializer();

protected override void LoadContent()
{
    configDeserializer.ParseConfigFile();

    PlayerMode playerMode = parsePlayerMode(configDeserializer.GetSetting("PlayerMode"));
    GameMode gameMode = parseGameMode(configDeserializer.GetSetting("GameMode"));   
}

And here is the file's code

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;

class ConfigFileDeserializer
{
    FileStream fileStream;
    StreamReader fileReader;
    Dictionary<string, string> ConfigParametersList = new Dictionary<string, string>();

    public string thisIP = "";

    // Open and parse the config file into a dictionary called ConfigParametersList. Method returns a bool indicating success or failure.
    public bool ParseConfigFile(string configFilename = "Settings.txt")
    {
        fileStream = new FileStream(configFilename, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

        if (!File.Exists(configFilename))
        {
            buildDefaultConfigFile(configFilename);
        }

        fileReader = new StreamReader(fileStream);

        string lineOfText = "";

        while ((lineOfText = fileReader.ReadLine()) != null)
        {
            string[] sTemp = lineOfText.Split(':');
            ConfigParametersList.Add(sTemp[0], sTemp[1]);
        }

        fileReader.Close();

        if (ConfigParametersList.Count() > 0) return true;   // We have configuration parameters, so it was a success

        return false;                                         // If we get here it means the ConfigParametersList is empty...
                                                                  // return a false since something went wrong.
    }

    public string GetSetting(string key)
    {
        return  ConfigParametersList[key];
    }

    private void buildDefaultConfigFile(string configFilename)
    {
        StreamWriter fileWriter = new StreamWriter(fileStream);
        File.CreateText(configFilename);
        fileWriter.Write("ServerIP:127.0.0.1");
        fileWriter.Write("ServerPort:15150");
        fileWriter.Write("UserName:Player1");
        fileWriter.Write("GameMode:Co-op");
        fileWriter.Close();
    }
}

Last edited on 21 Oct 2016 06:40 by Brett208 Show more