How to serialize an object without having to decorate all classes with serialization

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I have to make all object that I would use in caching serializable by decorating each class with the serialize attribute[serialize]. The problem is that there are potentially 100s of object in my project that I could use during caching and I do not want to decorate all of them with the serializable property. All of these classes derive from a single base class but property do not transfer in inheritance. I am using c#.

Posted 17-Jun-15 7:14am

Femi Osibote

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Maciej Los 17-Jun-15 13:52pm

How to serialize without serialization? Your question has no sense...

Femi Osibote 17-Jun-15 18:06pm

you can only say things like that hiding behind a pc. I think my question is quite clear. I want to accomplish serialization without having to decorate my object with the attribute as required by .net

CodeElnino 23-May-17 14:47pm

For folks still interested in a solution to this problem. One option is to use Protocol Buffer but this might not necessarily work for you depending on the scenario. I wanted to serialize for caching purposes after hydration. You can also use SharpSerializer or Automapper if you are trying to clone the object. There are some gotchas that you would need to be aware of.

Ralf Meier 18-Jun-15 0:46am

I think like Maciej - at which point is the need for serialisation of your class.
For example : if you use the class as a Property of a Control it will automaticly serialized by the Designer.
Do you think about something like this ?

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Yvan Rodrigues · Answer 1 · 2015-06-17T08:42:00

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This can't be done using the serializers that are built into .NET; however on this site you will find many people's serializers [^] that they have developed themselves.

Posted 17-Jun-15 8:42am

Yvan Rodrigues

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Maciej Los 17-Jun-15 14:58pm

Seems you didn't understand the question... OP wants to serialize classes without serialization decoration. All serializers need to to define serialization atrributes.

Yvan Rodrigues 17-Jun-15 15:01pm

Many do, but many don't. For example I wrote an XML serializer that can serialize pretty much anything you throw at it. You can use attribute decoration, but you don't have to. If you don't it just serializes all public properties like <property name="CustomerID">842</property> etc. I haven't written an article for it yet, but there have to be others.

Maciej Los 17-Jun-15 15:19pm

First of all, Yvan, i'm not an inquirer. Secondly, as i mentioned in the comment to your answer, It's almost impossible to serialize class with decorating it!

Yvan Rodrigues 17-Jun-15 15:46pm

Challenge accepted. ;)