Unity Networking Fundamentals: Creating Multiplayer Games with Unity

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S. Kelly, K. KumarUnity Networking Fundamentalshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7358-6_2

2. Serialization

Sloan Kelly¹   and Khagendra Kumar²

(1)

Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

(2)

Katihar, Bihar, India

 

Serialization is the process of taking data in memory and reformatting it to store, to send it across the network, or to construct an object in memory. A large part of message transmission and reception processes in networking use object serialization. This chapter covers the two serialization formats used in this book: JSON and binary.

Serialization Basics

In its basic form, serialization takes the public properties or fields of an instance of a class or struct and ...