Hey All,
I am having issue with serializing a class and its base class using
..net 2.0. I am using IXmlSerializable
I've provided code displaying my at the bottom of this post. Thanks
ahead of time for any help or feedback.
Cheers,
Peter
www.nofelt.com
Situation
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I am using System.Xml.Serialization I to serialize a class.
Specifically, I am having the class inherit IXmlSerializable and
overiding the serialize and deserialize methods so that i have complete
control over how my xml is rendered. Works great!
Problem
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Consider the following secnario:
* There exists a class called Person
* Person contains info like Age & Name
* Person inherits IXmlSerializable
* There exists a class called Employee
* Employee inherits Person as its base class
* Employee contains info like Title
* Person inherits IXmlSerializable
When i serialize an instance of Person it works fine. BUT when i
serialize and instance of Employee, I am only able to serialize
employee Title, not Age or Name as derived from Person.
Now this should work, i should be able to serialize the base class from
the derived without explicitly doing so. I say this because when i do
not use IXmlSerializable and just let XmlSerializer drive in terms of
interpreting schema and structure of a class, it is able to serialize
the derived and base class members.
Questions
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1. Inheriting IXmlSerializable for both a base and derive class, am i
able to easily serialize a derived and base classs info from the
derived class.
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CODE -- As described in Problem section above
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml;
namespace Test{
public class Person : IXmlSerializable
{
private int m_age;
private string m_name;
public int Age
{
get { return m_age; }
set { m_age = value; }
}
public string Name
{
get { return m_name; }
set { m_name = value; }
}
#region IXmlSerializable Members
System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema IXmlSerializable.GetSchema()
{
return null;
}
void IXmlSerializable.ReadXml(XmlReader reader)
{
reader.ReadToDescendant("Age");
this.Age = Convert.ToInt32(reader.ReadString());
reader.ReadToNextSibling("Name");
this.Name = reader.ReadString();
}
void IXmlSerializable.WriteXml(XmlWriter writer)
{
writer.WriteElementString("Age", this.Age.ToString());
writer.WriteElementString("Name", this.Name);
}
#endregion
}//end class
public class Employee : Person, IXmlSerializable {
private string m_title;
public string Title
{
get { return m_title; }
set { m_title = value; }
}
#region IXmlSerializable Members
System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchema IXmlSerializable.GetSchema()
{
return null;
}
void IXmlSerializable.ReadXml(XmlReader reader)
{
reader.ReadToDescendant("Title");
this.Title = reader.ReadString();
}
void IXmlSerializable.WriteXml(XmlWriter writer)
{
writer.WriteElementString("Title", this.Title);
}
#endregion
}
class Test
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Employee employee= new Employee();
employee.Title = "Boss";
employee.Name = "Mr. Man";
employee.Age = 16;
XmlSerializer xmlSerialize = new
XmlSerializer(typeof(Employee));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
settings.Indent = true;
XmlWriter writer = XmlTextWriter.Create(sb, settings);
///////Serialize
xmlSerialize.Serialize(writer, employee);
Console.WriteLine( "\n\n\n" + sb.ToString());
///////Deserialize
Employee newEmployee
= (xmlSerialize.Deserialize(
XmlTextReader.Create(new
StringReader(sb.ToString()))
) as Employee);
}//end main
}//end class
}//end namespace
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END OF CODE
