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il_berna
il_berna

Reputation: 9

unserialize array in Delphi

Is there any function in Delphi like "unserialize()" in PHP?

The array that I have is in string format like this:

a:6:{s:15:"info_buyRequest";a:2:{s:3:"qty";i:1;s:1 5:"super_attribute";a:2:{i:234;s:4:"2047";i:237;s: 4:"4312";}}s:15:"attributes_info";a:2:{i:0;a:2:{s: 5:"label";s:6:"Taglia";s:5:"value";s:6:"6 anni";}i:1;a:2:{s:5:"label";s:9:"TIPOLOGIA";s:5:"v alue";s:25:"Completo + Pallone Adidas";}}s:11:"simple_name";s:78:"Maglia Bacca Milan Carlos Ufficiale 2015 2016 Completo Pallone Jersey AC MILAN";s:10:"simple_sku";s:4:"-148";s:20:"product_calculations";i:1;s:13:"shipmen t_type";i:0;}

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 600

Answers (1)

David Heffernan
David Heffernan

Reputation: 613491

Is there any function in Delphi like "unserialize()" in PHP?

There is nothing in the Delphi runtime library that can operate directly on a the output from PHP serialize(). That function uses a bespoke format that is not standardised. In an ideal world you would use a widely accepted standard like JSON. Indeed PHP has support for JSON and if the serialization was instead performed with json_encode() it would be simple to deserialize in Delphi or indeed any other mainstream language.

You will need to take one of the following options to solve your problem:

  1. Change the code that generates the text to use a standard format such as JSON.
  2. Transcode the text, using a PHP engine, to a standard format such as JSON. You would do that with json_encode(unserialize(...)).
  3. Write, or find existing, Delphi code that parses and deserializes the text produced by serialize().

FWIW, any API that hands you the output of serialize() is badly designed and one might consider it prudent to look for an alternative.

Upvotes: 4

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