From 1dea74d1e59bb9700b0adff097d4b1ecab0aabe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoshi Askharoun <jjask7@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 00:08:56 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add debugger serialization and deserialization helpers

---
 UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/Data/DebuggerMessageFrame.cs | 8 ++++++++
 UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/DebugRemoting.cs             | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/Data/DebuggerMessageFrame.cs b/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/Data/DebuggerMessageFrame.cs
index 16ca654..2a5f613 100644
--- a/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/Data/DebuggerMessageFrame.cs
+++ b/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/Data/DebuggerMessageFrame.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Runtime.Serialization;
 using System.Text;
 
 namespace Microsoft.Iris.Debug.Data;
@@ -54,4 +56,10 @@ public class DebuggerMessageFrame
     }
 
     public string GetDataAsString(Encoding encoding = null) => (encoding ?? Encoding.UTF8).GetString(Data);
+
+    public T DeserializeData<T>(IFormatter formatter)
+    {
+        using MemoryStream stream = new(Data);
+        return (T)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/DebugRemoting.cs b/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/DebugRemoting.cs
index 4a36bad..287cba0 100644
--- a/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/DebugRemoting.cs
+++ b/UIX/Microsoft/Iris/Debug/DebugRemoting.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 using System;
-using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Net.Sockets;
 using System.Runtime.Serialization;
@@ -41,4 +40,11 @@ public static class DebugRemoting
             return null;
         }
     }
+
+    internal static byte[] Serialize(this object obj, IFormatter formatter)
+    {
+        using MemoryStream dataStream = new();
+        formatter.Serialize(dataStream, obj);
+        return dataStream.ToArray();
+    }
 }