How to serialize an array or a list?
I needed to serialize an array few weeks ago and i found one way to perform this serialization.
I performed the serialization for the following objects:
_persons.Add(new Employee { FirstName = "John", LastName = "Smith", Age = 32, EmployeeNumber = 213 });
_persons.Add(new Employee { FirstName = "Mike", LastName = "Stuart", Age = 24, EmployeeNumber = 253 });
_persons.Add(new Employee { FirstName = "John", LastName = "Charles", Age = 53, EmployeeNumber = 214 });
_persons.Add(new Employee { FirstName = "Mary", LastName = "Gomez", Age = 37, EmployeeNumber = 234 });
_persons.Add(new Employee { FirstName = "Javier", LastName = "Matias", Age = 33, EmployeeNumber = 453 });
I used the following code to perform this serialization:
Employee[] allEmployeesArray = allEmployees.ToArray();
String objectSerialized = string.Empty;
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(allEmployeesArray.GetType());
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
memoryStream.Position = 0;
using(XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8))
{
serializer.Serialize(xmlTextWriter, allEmployeesArray);
//UTF8 ByteArray To String
memoryStream = (MemoryStream)xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
objectSerialized = encoding.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
}
memoryStream.Close();
memoryStream.Dispose();
Console.WriteLine(objectSerialized);
And then i had the following result:
