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Reputation: 637

Complex and interrelated data structure in the Client Server scenerio

I need to know efficient mechanism used for data structure in the socket programming. Lets consider an example of car manufacturing on assembly line.

Initially Conveyer is empty then i start adding different parts dynamically. How can i transmit my data to the server using the TCP/UDP. What can i do so that my server can recognize, if i add some new part dynamically ? and after calculating server return data to client in same structure, so that client can put calculated data on the exact position of component.

Is it possible to arrange this data using some B Tree or B+ Tree structures ? is it possible to reconstruct the same tree on the server side ? what could be other possible alternatives approaches to do this ?

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Andriy Tylychko
Andriy Tylychko

Reputation: 16276

You need to serialize your data, whatever you need to send to server, to some text or binary blob. Yeah, it's possible to serialize interrelated data structure, e.g. by assigning some ID to items and then referencing them by that ID. For C++ serialization I would recommend to have a look at Boost.Serialization.

The simplest ID is memory address on serializer (sender) side - kind of unique identifier ready to use. Of course on deserializer side it must be considered as a just ID and not a memory address.

Upvotes: 1

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