From 42a1d6cccd5af37622eef41adba0d44520fd7814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Mueller <muellerr@irs.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:03:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] default implementation of simple serialize/deserialize

---
 src/fsfw/serialize/SerializeIF.h | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/fsfw/serialize/SerializeIF.h b/src/fsfw/serialize/SerializeIF.h
index d806c1615..de5abaeb5 100644
--- a/src/fsfw/serialize/SerializeIF.h
+++ b/src/fsfw/serialize/SerializeIF.h
@@ -90,6 +90,32 @@ class SerializeIF {
    */
   virtual ReturnValue_t deSerialize(const uint8_t **buffer, size_t *size,
                                     Endianness streamEndianness) = 0;
+
+  /**
+   * Helper method which can be used if serialization should be performed without any additional
+   * pointer arithmetic on a passed buffer pointer
+   * @param buffer
+   * @param maxSize
+   * @param streamEndianness
+   * @return
+   */
+  virtual ReturnValue_t  serialize(uint8_t* buffer, size_t maxSize, Endianness streamEndianness) {
+    size_t tmpSize = 0;
+    return serialize(&buffer, &tmpSize, maxSize, streamEndianness);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Helper methods which can be used if deserialization should be performed without any additional
+   * pointer arithmetic on a passed buffer pointer
+   * @param buffer
+   * @param maxSize
+   * @param streamEndianness
+   * @return
+   */
+  virtual ReturnValue_t  deSerialize(const uint8_t* buffer, size_t maxSize,
+                                    Endianness streamEndianness) {
+    return deSerialize(&buffer, &maxSize, streamEndianness);
+  }
 };
 
 #endif /* FSFW_SERIALIZE_SERIALIZEIF_H_ */