Problem deserializing ArrayList.

[Chris Mumford]

I have a wierd one that I hope somebody can help with.

I'm trying to serialize an ArrayList of items. I am successfully serializing
other ArrayLists of strings, but for some reason this code will serialize
*out* the CommentLines property, but the XmlSerializer seems to ignore them
when serializing them back in. Here is my code:

[Serializable]
public class PatchArchiveStats
{
ArrayList m_arrDiffItems = new ArrayList();

[XmlArrayItem( "DiffItem", typeof(DiffItem) )]
public ArrayList DiffItems {
get {
return m_arrDiffItems;
}
set {
m_arrDiffItems = value;
}
}
}

[Serializable]
public class DiffItem
{
string m_strComment; // A multi-line comment.

[XmlArray("CommentLines")]
[XmlArrayItem( "CommentLine", typeof(string) )]
public ArrayList CommentLines {
get {

ArrayList lines = new ArrayList();
if ( m_strComment != null ) {

string strLine = null;
StringReader reader = new StringReader( m_strComment );
while ( (strLine = reader.ReadLine()) != null ) {

lines.Add( strLine );
}
}

return lines;
}
set {
m_strComment = null;
foreach ( string strLine in value ) {
if ( strLine == null ) {
continue;
}
if ( m_strComment == null ) {
m_strComment = strLine;
}
else {
m_strComment += "\n" + strLine;
}
}
}
}
}

Any help would be very much appreciated!

[Ted Malone]

"Chris Mumford" <ch**********@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:UU*****************@newssvr23.news.prodigy.co m...

I have a wierd one that I hope somebody can help with.

I'm trying to serialize an ArrayList of items. I am successfully serializing other ArrayLists of strings, but for some reason this code will serialize
*out* the CommentLines property, but the XmlSerializer seems to ignore them when serializing them back in. Here is my code:

<snip>

Take a look at this tutorial. It might help point you in the right
direction...

http://www.devhood.com/tutorials/tut...utorial_id=542

Hope it helps..

Ted