SYSK 315: Generic Functions for Object ↔ XML Serialization/Deserialization
There are many reasons for custom serialization of an object into a human readable string (e.g. XML). If you find yourself recreating the serialization/deserialization code every few weeks, perhaps, it’s time to save off the functions below into a class in a shared assembly J.
public static string ToXml<T>(T source)
{
string result = null;
using (System.IO.StringWriter sw = new System.IO.StringWriter())
{
using (System.Xml.XmlWriter writer = System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.Create(sw, null))
{
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
serializer.Serialize(writer, source);
}
result = sw.ToString();
}
return result;
}
public static T FromXml<T>(string xml)
{
T result = default(T);
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(xml) == false)
{
using (System.IO.StringReader sr = new System.IO.StringReader(xml))
{
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
result = (T) serializer.Deserialize(sr);
}
}
return result;
}
