Streaming multiple TObjects to a TMemoryStream
- by Altar
I need to store multiple objects (most of them are TObject/non persistent) to a TMemoryStream, save the stream to disk and load it back. The objects need to be streamed one after each other. Some kind of universal container.
I started to make several functions that store stuff to stream - for example function
StreamReadString(CONST MemStream: TMemoryStream): string;
StreamWriteString(CONST MemStream: TMemoryStream; s: string);
However, it seems that I need to rewrite a lot of code. One of the many examples is TStringList.LoadFromStream that will not work so it needs to be rewritten. This is because TStringList needs to be the last object in the stream (it reads from current position to the end of the stream).
Anybody knows a library that provide basic functionality like this?
I am using Delphi 7 so RTTI won't help too much.
