Add persistence mechanism for serialization to files. *Requires Core Recompile*

Server/Persistence/Persistence.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+#region References
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+#endregion
+
+namespace Server
+{
+	public static class Persistence
+	{
+		public static void Serialize(string path, Action<GenericWriter> serializer)
+		{
+			Serialize(new FileInfo(path), serializer);
+		}
+
+		public static void Serialize(FileInfo file, Action<GenericWriter> serializer)
+		{
+			file.Refresh();
+
+			if (file.Directory != null && !file.Directory.Exists)
+			{
+				file.Directory.Create();
+			}
+
+			if (!file.Exists)
+			{
+				file.Create().Close();
+			}
+				
+			file.Refresh();
+
+			using (var fs = file.OpenWrite())
+			{
+				var writer = new BinaryFileWriter(fs, true);
+
+				try
+				{
+					serializer(writer);
+				}
+				finally
+				{
+					writer.Flush();
+					writer.Close();
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		public static void Deserialize(string path, Action<GenericReader> deserializer)
+		{
+			Deserialize(path, deserializer, true);
+		}
+
+		public static void Deserialize(FileInfo file, Action<GenericReader> deserializer)
+		{
+			Deserialize(file, deserializer, true);
+		} 
+
+		public static void Deserialize(string path, Action<GenericReader> deserializer, bool ensure)
+		{
+			Deserialize(new FileInfo(path), deserializer, ensure);
+		}
+
+		public static void Deserialize(FileInfo file, Action<GenericReader> deserializer, bool ensure)
+		{
+			file.Refresh();
+
+			if (file.Directory != null && !file.Directory.Exists)
+			{
+				if (!ensure)
+				{
+					throw new DirectoryNotFoundException();
+				}
+
+				file.Directory.Create();
+			}
+			
+			if (!file.Exists)
+			{
+				if (!ensure)
+				{
+					throw new FileNotFoundException
+					{
+						Source = file.FullName
+					};
+				}
+
+				file.Create().Close();
+			}
+				
+			file.Refresh();
+
+			using (var fs = file.OpenRead())
+			{
+				var reader = new BinaryFileReader(new BinaryReader(fs));
+
+				try
+				{
+					deserializer(reader);
+				}
+				catch (EndOfStreamException eos)
+				{
+					if (file.Length > 0)
+					{
+						Console.WriteLine("[Persistence]: {0}", eos);
+					}
+				}
+				catch (Exception e)
+				{
+					Console.WriteLine("[Persistence]: {0}", e);
+				}
+				finally
+				{
+					reader.Close();
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

Server/Server.csproj

@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@
     <Compile Include="Persistence\FileOperations.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\FileQueue.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\ParallelSaveStrategy.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Persistence\Persistence.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\QueuedMemoryWriter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\SaveMetrics.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Persistence\SaveStrategy.cs" />