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c#xmlgenericsserialization
jth41
jth41

Reputation: 3906

Generic XML Serializer deserialize generically

I have a simple serialization class for writing my custom objects to XML on disk:

   public class ReaderWriter
    {
        public static void StoreObjectInformationInFile<T>(T objectToBeWritten, string passedDestinationFileName)
        {
            XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(objectToBeWritten.GetType());
            TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(passedDestinationFileName);
            serializer.Serialize(writer, objectToBeWritten);
            writer.Close();
        }
    }

Is there a way to add a Generic Deserialization function to this Class that does the same thing but in reverse? something like this:

        public static <T> GetObjectInformationFromFile<T>(string passedDestinationFileName)
        {
            ...
        }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Hamlet Hakobyan
Hamlet Hakobyan

Reputation: 33381

Here is the prototype of generic deserialization method

public static T GetObjectInformationFromFile<T>(string passedDestinationFileName)
{
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    using(var stream = new StreamReader(passedDestinationFileName))
    {
        return (T)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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