CustomTypes serialization with string

MagicDesign

Hi!

I recently had trouble trying to add a custom type containing a string to the serializable types in photon (with the CustomTypes.cs script, as explained here)
The example in the documentation does not work as it is for a string, and i had a lot of trouble finding the solution in the forums, so here is my own solution for a class with a string and int. If I missed something and there is an easier way, or even if my code is just no good, please tell !

the class to serialize:

public class CustomType
    {
        public string someString;
        public int someInt;
    }

in the Register() function:

PhotonPeer.RegisterType(typeof(CustomType), (byte)'N', SerializeCustomType, DeserializeCustomType);

the serialization:

    private static short SerializeCustomType(StreamBuffer outStream, object customobject)
    {
        CustomType o = (CustomType)customobject;

        short strLen = (short)System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(o.someString).Length;
        byte[] bytes = new byte[2 + 4 + strLen]; //size of short (for string length) + size of int + size of the string

        int index = 0;

        Protocol.Serialize(strLen, bytes, ref index); // write string length to byte array
        Protocol.Serialize(o.someInt, bytes, ref index);  //write int to byte array
        System.Array.Copy(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(o.someString), 0, bytes, index, strLen); // write string
        outStream.Write(bytes, 0, 2 + 4 + strLen);

        return (short)(strLen + 6); // what is this return used for?
    }

    private static object DeserializeCustomType(StreamBuffer inStream, short length)
    {
        CustomType o = new CustomType();

        byte[] strLenByte = new byte[2];
        short strLen;
        int index = 0;

        inStream.Read(strLenByte, 0, 2); //read the size of the string first
        Protocol.Deserialize(out strLen, strLenByte, ref index);

        byte[] memCustomType = new byte[4 + strLen];
        inStream.Read(memCustomType, 0, 4 + strLen);// then read the rest (the CustomType object ) 
        index = 0;
        Protocol.Deserialize(out o.someInt, memCustomType, ref index);
        o.someString= System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(memCustomType, index, strLen);

        return o;
    }

=D

PS : Also i don't know how to display code properly on a forum so i just copied some html from another post, but i have no idea what i am actually doing, tell me if something is wrong...