When to use getStateInformation / setStateInformation

Audio Plugins
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Until I learn more about JUCE and all it can do, for now I have done the following to save and retrieve my wavetables. I am fully aware there are so people many here, most actually, that know JUCE and C++ much better than I do, and because so they can therefore do it better, more efficient, but hey I gotta do what I can to move this project along.

Saving;

void MutineerAudioProcessor::getStateInformation (MemoryBlock& destData)
{
	auto s = parameters.copyState ();

	std::unique_ptr<juce::XmlElement> xml (s.createXml ());

    // UI settings stored here

    for (int module = 0; module < maxModules; module++)
	{
        // Some parameters saved here

        // Checking here if saving is necessary (custom table), or just default type

        std::string wavetable = "";

        for (int i = 0; i < wtSize; i++)
        {
            // The below precision, which keeps string getting to big, 
            // is acceptable to me!
	    	//wavetable = wavetable + std::to_string (int (
                //              tgPS.tgActiveWaveform[module][i] * 32767)) + "|";

            // Compared to the above commented out line, the below code eliminates 
            // about 12KB, the "-" character, on 8 x 4096 tables
            wavetable = wavetable + std::to_string (unsigned int 
              ((synthParams.tgActiveWaveform[module][i] + 1.0f) * 65535)) + "|";
        }

        xml->setAttribute ("wavetable" + String (module), wavetable);

        // More parameters stored here
    }
    copyXmlToBinary (*xml, destData);
}

Retrieving;

void MutineerAudioProcessor::setStateInformation (const void* data, int sizeInBytes)
{
	std::unique_ptr<juce::XmlElement> xmlState (getXmlFromBinary (data, 
                                      sizeInBytes));

	if (xmlState != nullptr) {
		if (xmlState->hasTagName (parameters.state.getType ())) {
			// UI setting retrieved here

			for (int module = 0; module < maxModules; module++)
			{
				// Parameters retrieved here

                // Checking here if table is default type or custom table

				String temp = xmlState->getStringAttribute ("wavetable" + 
                              String (module), "");

				std::string wavetable = temp.toStdString ();

				for (int i = 0; i < wtSize; i++)
				{
					tgPS.tgActiveWaveform[module][i] = 
                      float (std::stoi (wavetable)) / 65535 + 1.0f;

					wavetable = wavetable.substr (wavetable.find_first_of ("|") 
                                + 1);
				}

				// More parameters retrieved here
			}

            parameters.replaceState (ValueTree::fromXml (*xmlState));
		}
	}
}
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