Contains an IBitConverter interface with both Big and Little Endian implementations.
Comes in utile when received data is encoded in another Endian way. Examples are:
- Networking data which is encoded in Big Endian. Hence when reading or writing UDP or TCP packets the data needs to be decoded or encoded with a Big Endian converter.
- Serialized data could be encoded in one Endian way or another. Hence the data needs to be read with the appropriate converter.
Suppose a byte[] is received which contains a double. The transmitter of the data could be Big or Little Endian encoded. The IBitConverter allows to use the implementation as needed:
internal class SerializationComponent
{
private readonly IBitConverter bitConverter;
public SerializationComponent(bool dataIsLittleEndian)
{
bitConverter = dataIsLittleEndian ? EndianBitConverter.Little : EndianBitConverter.Big;
}
public double ReceivedDoubleInData(byte[] data)
{
return bitConverter.ToDouble(data);
}
}