Serialize this

[ThankGodItsFriday]

Hi!

I'd like to serialize an object from within itself.

public class person
{
   public int id = 5;
   public ArrayList phoneNumbers;
   ...

   public void Serialize (string filename)
   {
      //Code to serialize current object
   }
}

the code

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Whatever));
...

serializer.Serialize(writer, this);

Generates the runtime error "An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in system.xml.dll"

Is this possible to do w/o creating a copy of the current object and serialize that?

 

[mrdance]

Maybe you have to initalize the arraylist first.

public ArrayList phoneNumbers = new ArrayList();


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[stsuing]

Something like this

public object Serialize ()
{
MemoryStream buffer = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
Serialization.SerializationNotification.OnSerializing(this);
formatter.Serialize(buffer, this);
return buffer;
}

 

[ThankGodItsFriday]

Actually I made a mistake... [doh]

It helps if the object given in the typeof() declaration is the same object you are trying to serialize...

Thnx anyways!!!