Sending a structure as a string from client to server

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I've build two separate projects using Chilkat.com functions(client and server), in which the client sends information to the server (but it only sends it as a "STRING"). My question is:

is it possible to send a structure from the client to the server, which contains data of different types?
And if my projects only send strings, how can it be done ?

Best Regards.
Rania

Posted 22-Feb-14 23:17pm

raniam

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Vedat Ozan Oner 23-Feb-14 5:55am

you can use JSON. see http://www.json.org/

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-Feb-14 12:41pm

Why as a string? Yes, of course, it can be done. You need to have serialization and deserialization of data, not necessarily to/from string. There are many ways to do it. Did you try anything?
—SA

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2014-02-23T07:48:00

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is it possible to send a structure from the client to the server, which contains data of different types?

Of course it is possible. It happens all the time :-).

Quote:
And if my projects only send strings, how can it be done ?

You have full control on both the client and the server applications, hence you could even establish your own protocol for sending/receiving data. However I would follow the good advices other people gave and have a look at serialization topic (see, for instance: "Introducing XML Serialization" at MSDN[^]).

KarstenK · Answer 2 · 2014-02-23T07:39:00

Solution 1

You should sent the data in a serialized data format. Json or XML is a good idea, but often gives your framework some easy-solution.

Be careful in implementing error handling if data is missing or invalid.

Posted 23-Feb-14 7:39am

KarstenK