From e3f82b250a395b3363140f5492b29202d220237e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Farkas=20J=C3=B3zsef?= <fjozsef001@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:39:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add readArray and WriteArray to UhkBuffer

---
 src/config-serializer/UhkBuffer.ts | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/config-serializer/UhkBuffer.ts b/src/config-serializer/UhkBuffer.ts
index 50f6e511..d3ca33ba 100644
--- a/src/config-serializer/UhkBuffer.ts
+++ b/src/config-serializer/UhkBuffer.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { Serializable } from './Serializable';
+
 export class UhkBuffer {
 
     private static eepromSize = 32 * 1024;
@@ -151,6 +153,23 @@ export class UhkBuffer {
         this.writeUInt8(bool ? 1 : 0);
     }
 
+    // See: How to create a new object from type parameter in generic class in typescript? http://stackoverflow.com/q/17382143
+    readArray<T extends Serializable<T>>(type: { new (): T }): T[] {
+        let array: T[] = [];
+        let length = this.readCompactLength();
+        for (let i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
+            array.push(new type().fromBinary(this));
+        }
+        return array;
+    }
+
+    writeArray<T extends Serializable<T>>(array: T[]): void {
+        this.writeCompactLength(array.length);
+        for (let element of array) {
+            element.toBinary(this);
+        }
+    }
+
     backtrack(): void {
         this.offset -= this.bytesToBacktrack;
         this.bytesToBacktrack = 0;