我有以下方法来保存一个对象到一个文件:
// Save an object out to the disk
public static void SerializeObject<T>(this T toSerialize, String filename)
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(toSerialize.GetType());
TextWriter textWriter = new StreamWriter(filename);
xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, toSerialize);
textWriter.Close();
}
我承认这不是我写的(我只是把它转换成一个接受类型参数的扩展方法)。
现在我需要它把xml作为字符串返回给我(而不是保存到文件中)。我正在调查这件事,但我还没有弄清楚。
我想对于熟悉这些物体的人来说,这可能很简单。如果没有,我最终会弄清楚的。
使用StringWriter而不是StreamWriter:
public static string SerializeObject<T>(this T toSerialize)
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(toSerialize.GetType());
using(StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
{
xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, toSerialize);
return textWriter.ToString();
}
}
Note, it is important to use toSerialize.GetType() instead of typeof(T) in XmlSerializer constructor: if you use the first one the code covers all possible subclasses of T (which are valid for the method), while using the latter one will fail when passing a type derived from T.
Here is a link with some example code that motivate this statement, with XmlSerializer throwing an Exception when typeof(T) is used, because you pass an instance of a derived type to a method that calls SerializeObject that is defined in the derived type's base class: http://ideone.com/1Z5J1.
此外,Ideone使用Mono来执行代码;使用Microsoft . net运行时得到的实际异常与Ideone上显示的异常有不同的消息,但它同样失败。