Matlab serialization

Matlab object serialization functions built with undocumented mex functions mxSerialize and mxDeserialize. The function can convert any ordinary matlab variable into uint8 array. These functions are unsupported and may change at any time without notice in the future Matlab release.

Build

Use the supplied Makefile in unix environment, with MATLAB installation path.

$ make MATLABDIR=/usr/local/matlab

Alternatively, just call mex in the matlab shell.

>> mex serialize.c
>> mex deserialize.c

Usage

Use serlialize to encode arbitrary matlab variable. The function returns encoded variable as a uint8 array.

>> x = randn(1,4)

x =

    0.7147   -0.2050   -0.1241    1.4897

>> y = serialize(x)

y =

  Columns 1 through 21

    0    1   73   77    0    0    0    0   14    0    0    0   80 ...

Use deserialize to retrieve the encoded variable.

>> z = deserialize(y)

z =

    0.7147   -0.2050   -0.1241    1.4897

License

The code may be redistributed under the BSD clause 3 license.