.xml into .pak

Eric · 02-11-2014 05:39 PM

As in subject, how can I add a .xml file into .pak since PakFileData supports only File not FileText and .xml can be saved into FileText only?

Eric · 02-12-2014 08:24 PM

Ok. What I've done for now is:
1. Created normal XmlData with XmlNodes
2. Saved XmlData to FileText memory with:

Code:

FileText file_text;

file_text.writeMem();

xml.save(file_text);

3. Buffered FileText to CPtr since FileText File is private with:

Code:

CPtr buffer = AllocZero(file_text.size());

file_text.readMem(buffer, file_text.size());

4. Created PakFileData for PakCreate() with:

Code:

Memb<PakFileData> files;

PakFileData &pfd=files.New();

pfd.name=p.x+" "+p.y+".profile";

pfd.file.writeMem();

pfd.file.put(buffer, file_text.size());

pfd.modify_time_utc.getUTC();

5. Freed the buffer of course wink

6. Created .pak file with PakCreate() method with Memb files and Secure object reference.

It worked. The pfd.file exemple size is 248.

Now it's time to load the data (xml). And here's the problem! In FREPA loop with the searched files I'm trying to load them with:

Code:

static C PakFile &fp = Program::players[i].pak.file(0);

static FileText ft;

if(ft.read(fp.name, Program::players[i].pak))

{

    static XmlData xml;

    if(xml.load(ft))

    {

     ...

and the xml.load() method returns FALSE! When I check the size of 'fp' it returns 248. The size of 'ft' is also 248 but when i try to getAll() (with Log(...); ) from it it returns nothing..

What's the problem?!

**Esenthel** · 02-13-2014 11:59 PM

Do you want to add an existing "xml" file from the disk to your project?
You can do this by drag and dropping the file to the project region
http://www.esenthel.com/?id=doc#Importing_Assets

If not, then please explain more your situation, why do you want to do this?

Thanks

Eric · 02-14-2014 10:25 AM

Here's what I want to do: I wan't to create in memory (without saving it on a disk) a xml file (*.profile) with informations about player's profile (eg. "nick", "score"). It needs to be in xml because of complexity of stored data, so I cannot use binary file format. Then I need to add (in memory) the xml (*.profile) file into Secured .pak (*.player) file and then save the .pak file on a disk. I did this but when I try to load saved .xml file the xml.load() method returns false.

**Esenthel** · 02-14-2014 10:36 PM

file_text.readMem(buffer, file_text.size()); <- this reads from the memory and not writes to it

Next release will have this new FileText method:
Bool copy (File &dest, Bool flush=true); // copy the entire contents (from start to end) of this FileText into 'dest' file including byte order mark (BOM) if present, 'flush'=if flush the 'dest' file at the end of the copy and verify that it has succeeded, false on fail

Eric · 02-15-2014 12:57 PM

Thank you! Waiting for next release.

.xml into .pak
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