/// <summary>
/// Deserialize a series of "ChildNode"s from an XmlElement as elements for a generic Dictionary.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="_workingObject">The "working" object to receive the dictionary elements</param>
/// <param name="_parentElement">The "parent" of the XmlElements containing the individual Dictionary elements</param>
/// <param name="_deserializer">The deserialization framework handing the deserialization</param>
/// <returns>TRUE unless the collection is not supposed to be treated like an "interface"</returns>
public bool Deserialize(CWorkingObject _workingObject, XmlElement _parentElement, CDeserializer _deserializer)
{
if (!ATreatAsInterface.TreatAsInterface(_deserializer))
{
return(false);
}
var oType = _workingObject.WorkingType;
if (oType == null)
{
oType = _deserializer.GetExpectedType(_parentElement);
}
if (oType == null)
{
throw new XDeserializationError(
"When deserializing a generic collection, the actual Type of the collection could not be found.");
}
var expectedTypes = oType.GetGenericArguments();
if (expectedTypes.Length != NumberOfExpectedTypes)
{
throw new XDeserializationError("The Type '" + oType.FullName + "' has " + expectedTypes.Length +
" generic arguments when it is required to have exactly " + NumberOfExpectedTypes + ".");
}
var collection = _workingObject.GetExistingOrCreateNew(oType);
var elementName = _deserializer.GetNameForCollectionElement();
foreach (XmlElement xmlElement in GetXmlChildren(_parentElement))
{
if (xmlElement.Name == elementName)
{
AddElementFromXml(collection, xmlElement, expectedTypes, _deserializer);
}
}
return(true);
}