Deserialize in constructor

[jhcorey]

I have this method in class Foo:

public Foo DeserializeXML(string sXML)
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Foo));
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sXML);
return (Foo)serializer.Deserialize(sr);

}

which seems to work fine if I do this:
Foo myFoo = new Foo();
myFoo = myFoo.Deserialize(myXMLString);

I'm trying to figure out if there's a simple way to do the
deserialization in a constructor.

TIA,
Jim

[David Browne]

<jh*****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I have this method in class Foo:

public Foo DeserializeXML(string sXML)
{
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Foo));
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sXML);
return (Foo)serializer.Deserialize(sr);

}

which seems to work fine if I do this:
Foo myFoo = new Foo();
myFoo = myFoo.Deserialize(myXMLString);

I'm trying to figure out if there's a simple way to do the
deserialization in a constructor.

Make DeserializeXML static. Then you don't need an instance to call it.

public static Foo DeserializeXML(string sXML)
{

.. . .
Foo myFoo = Foo.Deserialize(myXMLString);
David

[Joanna Carter [TeamB]]

<jh*****@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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|I have this method in class Foo:
|
| public Foo DeserializeXML(string sXML)
| {
| XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Foo));
| StringReader sr = new StringReader(sXML);
| return (Foo)serializer.Deserialize(sr);
|
| }
|
| which seems to work fine if I do this:
| Foo myFoo = new Foo();
| myFoo = myFoo.Deserialize(myXMLString);
|
| I'm trying to figure out if there's a simple way to do the
| deserialization in a constructor.

public class Foo
{
// private fields

public Foo(string sXML) : base ()
{
Deserialize(sXML);
}

private void DeserializeXML(string sXML)
{
// assign decoded XML to private fields
}
}

{
Foo myFoo = new Foo(myXMLString);
...
}

Joanna

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Joanna Carter [TeamB]
Consultant Software Engineer