Reply To: Put runtime on .NET server

May 10, 2016 at 7:43 pm #22778

benthehutt

Participant

That makes sense, thanks for the heads up! It’s helpful to know I’m moving in the right direction.

One issue I’ve found and was able to bypass was that the JSON export saves assembly information for generic types. This is actually a C# thing, not a FlowCanvas thing. Type.FullName doesn’t return any assembly info unless it’s a generic type. Here’s an example:

FlowCanvas.Nodes.SimplexNodeWrapper'1[[FlowCanvas.Nodes.LogText, Assembly-CSharp, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]

The generic type doesn’t contain the assembly info, but the generic parameter does. This is an issue because as you can see, it makes the Assembly-CSharp.dll a requirement. Basically I made the serializer output this instead:

FlowCanvas.Nodes.SimplexNodeWrapper<FlowCanvas.Nodes.LogText>

To support this I added this bit to the beginning of ReflectionTools.GetType:

// handle generics

if (typeName.Contains('<'))

{

var split = typeName.Split(new []{'<'}, 2);

var genericParameterTypeNames = split[1].TrimEnd('>').Split(',');

var genericTypeName = "{0}'{1}".FormatStr(split[0], genericParameterTypeNames.Length);

var genericType = Type.GetType(genericTypeName);

var genericParameterTypes = genericParameterTypeNames.Select<string, Type>(GetType);

if (null == genericType)

{

return null;

}

return genericType.MakeGenericType(genericParameterTypes.ToArray());

}

Now I can successfully deserialize the json on my server. Now I’m on to actually evaluating it.