/// <summary>
/// This method provides the functionality to convert any object to the appropriate
/// type for this mapper. The default behaviour only handles null values, empty
/// strings and DBNull.Value and parses all three to null. This method should be
/// overridden in subtypes to parse values to the type you want.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="valueToParse">The value to be attempted to parse</param>
/// <param name="returnValue">the parsed value, if parsing was successful</param>
/// <returns>True if the parsing was succesful, false if this mapper was unable to
/// parse the valueToParse.</returns>
public override bool TryParsePropValue(object valueToParse, out object returnValue)
{
if (base.TryParsePropValue(valueToParse, out returnValue))
{
return(true);
}
if (valueToParse is Image)
{
returnValue = valueToParse;
return(true);
}
if (valueToParse is byte[])
{
returnValue = SerialisationUtilities.ByteArrayToObject((byte[])valueToParse);
return(true);
}
if (valueToParse is String)
{
var bytes = Convert.FromBase64String((string)valueToParse);
returnValue = new Bitmap(new MemoryStream(bytes));
return(true);
}
returnValue = null;
return(false);
}
public void TestTwoWayConversion()
{
Image image = (Image)_resourceManager.GetObject("TestJpeg");
byte[] bytesOut = SerialisationUtilities.ObjectToByteArray(image);
Object objectOut = SerialisationUtilities.ByteArrayToObject(bytesOut);
Assert.AreEqual(image.GetType(), objectOut.GetType());
}