Improvements to DataStore Remote.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.DataStore/DataStoreHelper.cs b/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.DataStore/DataStoreHelper.cs
index bf78bc35e..53745990e 100644
--- a/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.DataStore/DataStoreHelper.cs
+++ b/Software/Visual_Studio/Tango.DataStore/DataStoreHelper.cs
@@ -83,5 +83,29 @@ namespace Tango.DataStore
 
             throw new NotSupportedException("The specified data type is not supported.");
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Formats the data store item as a string.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="item">The item.</param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public static String FormatDataStoreItem(IDataStoreItem item)
+        {
+            if (item.Type != DataType.Bytes)
+            {
+                return $"{item.Key}: {item.Value}";
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                byte[] bytes = (byte[])item.Value;
+
+                StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder();
+                foreach (byte b in bytes)
+                {
+                    hex.AppendFormat("{0:x2} ", b);
+                }
+                return hex.ToString();
+            }
+        }
     }
 }