/// <summary>
/// Serialize an instance to a JSON value.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="instance">The instance to serialize.</param>
/// <returns>The serialized JSON value.</returns>
/// <param name="ignoreCustomSerialization">
/// A value to indicate whether or not custom serialization should be
/// ignored if the instance implements
/// ICustomMobileServiceTableSerialization. This flag is used by
/// implementations of ICustomMobileServiceTableSerialization that
/// want to invoke the default serialization behavior.
/// </param>
public static JToken Serialize(object instance, bool ignoreCustomSerialization)
{
if (instance == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("instance");
}
// If the instance implements
// ICustomMobileServiceTableSerialization, allow it to handle its
// own serialization.
if (!ignoreCustomSerialization)
{
ICustomMobileServiceTableSerialization custom = instance as ICustomMobileServiceTableSerialization;
if (custom != null)
{
return(custom.Serialize());
}
}
// Get the Mobile Services specific type info
SerializableType type = SerializableType.Get(instance.GetType());
// Create a new JSON object to represent the instance
JObject obj = new JObject();
foreach (SerializableMember member in type.Members.Values.OrderBy(m => m.Order))
{
// Get the value to serialize
object value = member.GetValue(instance);
if (member.Converter != null)
{
// If there's a user defined converter, we can apply that
// and set the value directly.
obj.Set(member.Name, member.Converter.ConvertToJson(value));
}
else if (member == type.IdMember &&
SerializableType.IsDefaultIdValue(value))
{
// Special case the ID member so we don't write out any
// value if wasn't set (i.e., has a 0 or null value). This
// allows us flexibility for the type of the ID column
// which is currently a long in SQL but could someday be a
// GUID in something like a document database. At some
// point we might also change the server to quietly ignore
// default values for the ID column on insert.
}
else if (!obj.TrySet(member.Name, value))
{
throw new ArgumentException(
string.Format(
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
Resources.MobileServiceTableSerializer_Serialize_UnknownType,
member.Name,
member.Type.FullName,
type.Type.Name),
"instance");
}
}
return(obj);
}
