S7Connect/S7.Net/Types/LReal.cs

using System;
using System.IO;

namespace S7.Net.Types
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains the conversion methods to convert Real from S7 plc to C# double.
    /// </summary>
    public static class LReal
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Converts a S7 LReal (8 bytes) to double
        /// </summary>
        public static double FromByteArray(byte[] bytes)
        {
            if (bytes.Length != 8)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("Wrong number of bytes. Bytes array must contain 8 bytes.");
            }
            var buffer = bytes;

            // sps uses bigending so we have to reverse if platform needs
            if (BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
            {
                Array.Reverse(buffer);
            }

            return BitConverter.ToDouble(buffer, 0);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts a double to S7 LReal (8 bytes)
        /// </summary>
        public static byte[] ToByteArray(double value)
        {
            var bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(value);

            // sps uses bigending so we have to check if platform is same
            if (BitConverter.IsLittleEndian)
            {
                Array.Reverse(bytes);
            }
            return bytes;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts an array of double to an array of bytes 
        /// </summary>
        public static byte[] ToByteArray(double[] value) => TypeHelper.ToByteArray(value, ToByteArray);

        /// <summary>
        /// Converts an array of S7 LReal to an array of double
        /// </summary>
        public static double[] ToArray(byte[] bytes) => TypeHelper.ToArray(bytes, FromByteArray);
        
    }
}