Binary serialization and deserialization without creating files (via strings)
- by the_V
Hi,
I'm trying to create a class that will contain functions for serializing/deserializing objects to/from string. That's what it looks like now:
public class BinarySerialization
{
public static string SerializeObject(object o)
{
string result = "";
if ((o.GetType().Attributes & TypeAttributes.Serializable) == TypeAttributes.Serializable)
{
BinaryFormatter f = new BinaryFormatter();
using (MemoryStream str = new MemoryStream())
{
f.Serialize(str, o);
str.Position = 0;
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(str);
result = reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
return result;
}
public static object DeserializeObject(string str)
{
object result = null;
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(str);
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(bytes))
{
BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
result = bf.Deserialize(stream);
}
return result;
}
}
SerializeObject method works well, but DeserializeObject does not. I always get an exception with message "End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed". What may be wrong here?
