public Author Deserializing(string filePath)
{
string line = string.Empty;
List<string> authorInfo = new List<string>();
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(filePath))
{
while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null)
{
authorInfo.Add(line);
}
}
Author author = new Author();
author.Name = authorInfo[0];
author.Email = authorInfo[1];
for (int i = 2; i < authorInfo.Count; i++)
{
string[] bookInfo = authorInfo[i].Split('$');
var book = new Book();
book.Title = bookInfo[0];
book.PublishDate = DateTime.Parse(bookInfo[1]);
author.Books.Add(book);
}
return author;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Book one = new Book();
one.Title = "Think and grow rich";
one.PublishDate = DateTime.Now;
Book two = new Book();
two.Title = "The virgin way";
two.PublishDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(23);
List<Book> listbooks = new List<Book>() { one, two };
Author aut = new Author("Richard Branson", listbooks);
string path = @"C:\Users\Ivan Ivanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\BooksAndAuthors\targ.txt";
aut.Deserializing(aut, path);
}
//using Bulit in Deserialization for XML
//public void Deserializing(Author author, string path)
//{
// try
// {
// string xmlatt = string.Empty;
// XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
// xmldoc.Load(path);
// string xmlString = xmldoc.OuterXml;
// using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString))
// {
// XmlSerializer selializer = new XmlSerializer(author.GetType());
// using (XmlReader xmlreader = new XmlTextReader(reader))
// {
// author = (Author)selializer.Deserialize(xmlreader);
// xmlreader.Close();
// }
// }
// }
// catch (Exception ex)
// {
// Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
// }
//}
// Using custom serialization
//public void Serializing(Author author, string path)
//{
// using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(path))
// {
// writer.WriteLine(author.Name);
// writer.WriteLine(author.Email);
// string booksandDateTime = string.Empty;
// foreach (var item in author.Books)
// {
// booksandDateTime = item.Title + "$" + item.PublishDate;
// writer.WriteLine(booksandDateTime);
// }
// }
//}
public void Deserializing(Author author, string path)
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(path))
{
Author test = new Author();
test.Books = new List<Book>();
test.Name = reader.ReadLine();
test.Email = reader.ReadLine();
string[] books = new string[2];
while (true)
{
try
{
books = reader.ReadLine().Split('$');
}
catch(NullReferenceException)
{
return;
}
DateTime time = DateTime.Parse(books[1]);
Book book = new Book();
book.Title = books[0];
book.PublishDate = time;
test.Books.Add(book);
}
}
}
