Quick question involving xml deserialization and strings

[ruanr]

Hi, I recieve a chunk of XML as a string that i want to then deserialize, but none of the XmlSerializer.Deserialize overloads accept a string as parameter, mostly only streams, textreaders or xmlreaders. Surely there has to be a quick way to convert a string to one of those formats?

[originSH]

The streams live in System.IO, have a look there.

[Jon Hulatt]

I don't think there's a smart way of doing this. You could allocate a byte array, create a MemoryStream on it, and then write your string to the memory stream. Then you can deserialize from that.

using System.Beer;

[Pete OHanlon]

Off the top of my head, you could try this:

public T FromString<T>(string serializedObject) where T : new()
{
  XmlSerializer xmlSer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
  StringReader sr = new StringReader(serializedObject);
  XmlTextReader stream = new XmlTextReader(sr);

  try
  {
    T obj = (T)xmlSer.Deserialize(stream);
    return obj;
  }
  catch(Exception ex)
  {
    // Log ex...
  }
  finally
  {
    sr.Close();
    stream.Close();
  }
}

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[ruanr]

beautiful, thanks a lot :)

[Pete OHanlon]

Glad to help.:-D

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[originSH]

Jon Hulatt wrote:

I don't think there's a smart way of doing this.

System.IO.StringReader