Re: persistence/serializable

Thanks Dave and Anthony,

I don't like the kludge option - but thanks for the suggestion.  It
would work but I don't like having that other public property.

The 'momento' class (another class that can be serialized as desired and
then used to instantiate the real class instance) is, perhaps, a better
option.  It seems there should be more control built into the
[Serializable] attribute and how it is used though.

Peter

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From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-CX] persistence/serializable

Kludge Option: I don't advocate this approach; but just anoter idea to
get you thinking

Try marking the Arraylist as [XmlIgnore]
then adding another public property that contains a list of strings.

in the Get  build the list of strings from the array list;
in the set build the list of arrayobjects from disk; ONLY if the
arraylist is null


Dave

On 3/27/07, Nassar, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone know how a way to do this w/o having Component implement
> IXmlSerializable? Since nearly every member of that class that you
want
> to serialize has an acceptable default XML serialization, it shouldn't
> be too hard. The only alternative that comes to mind is to use a
custom
> collection, and *not* ArrayList; then implement IXmlSerializable for
> that class (i.e., just write out the names of the Step objects, and
just
> read those back in. Then the enclosing instance of Component would
have
> to resolve those references, though, which takes you back to
> implementing IXmlSerializable for Component).
>
> This is why I don't like to make classes serializable. Usually I've
got
> a "memento" class that the real class can instantiate, or populate
> itself from. I design the memento in order to be trivially
serializable.

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