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('$');
var book = new Book();
book.Title = bookInfo[0];
book.PublishDate = DateTime.Parse(bookInfo[1]);
author.Books.Add(book);
}
return author;
}
public void Serializing(Author author, string fileName)
{
using (StreamWriter myWriter = new StreamWriter(fileName))
{
mySerializer.Serialize(myWriter, author);
}
}
static void Main()
{
List<Book> books = new List<Book>()
{
new Book("The Power Of Now", new DateTime(1997, 03, 01)),
new Book("C# for Dummies", new DateTime(2010, 01, 01)),
new Book("Book: The book", new DateTime(2016, 01, 30))
};
Author author = new Author("Peter Parker", "*****@*****.**", books);
// example #1
string filePath = @"C:\Users\Nicky\Desktop\author.xml";
XMLAuthorSerializer serializer = new XMLAuthorSerializer();
serializer.SerializeAuthor(author, filePath);
// example #2
string filePath2 = @"C:\Users\Nicky\Desktop\customAuthor.txt";
CustomAuthorSerializer customSerializer = new CustomAuthorSerializer();
customSerializer.SerializeAuthor(author, filePath2);
// example #3
string filePath3 = @"C:\Users\Nicky\Desktop\authorToDeserialize.txt";
Author deserializedAuthor = customSerializer.DeserializeAuthor(filePath3);
Console.WriteLine(deserializedAuthor.Name);
Console.WriteLine(deserializedAuthor.Email);
foreach (var book in deserializedAuthor.Books)
Console.WriteLine($"{book.Title} - {book.PublishDate}");
}
public void SerializeAuthor(Author author, string filename)
{
using (System.IO.StreamWriter sw = new System.IO.StreamWriter(filename))
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Author));
xs.Serialize(sw, author);
}
}
public void SerializeAuthor(Author author, string filePath)
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(filePath))
{
XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Author));
xmlSerializer.Serialize(sw, author);
}
}
public void SerializeAuthor(Author author, string filePath)
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(filePath))
{
sw.WriteLine(author.Name);
sw.WriteLine(author.Email);
foreach (var book in author.Books)
sw.WriteLine($"{book.Title}${book.PublishDate}");
}
}
public void SerializeAuthor(Author author, string filename)
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(filename))
{
sw.WriteLine(author.Name);
sw.WriteLine(author.Email);
foreach (var book in author.Books)
{
sw.WriteLine(string.Join("$", book.Title, book.PublishDate));
}
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Book one = new Book();
one.Title = "Think and grow rich";
one.PublishDate = DateTime.Now;
Book two = new Book();
two.Title = "The virgin way";
two.PublishDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(23);
List<Book> listbooks = new List<Book>() { one, two };
Author aut = new Author("Richard Branson", listbooks);
string path = @"C:\Users\Ivan Ivanov\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\BooksAndAuthors\targ.txt";
aut.Deserializing(aut, path);
}
public void Serializing(Author author, string fileName)
{
List<string> authorInfo = new List<string>();
authorInfo.Add(author.Name);
authorInfo.Add(author.Email);
foreach (var book in author.Books)
{
authorInfo.Add(string.Format("{0}${1}", book.Title, book.PublishDate.ToShortDateString()));
}
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fileName))
{
foreach (var line in authorInfo)
{
sw.WriteLine(line);
}
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var author1 = new Author("authorName", "authorEmail",
new List<Book>()
{
new Book("Book-title1", DateTime.Now),
new Book("Book-title2", DateTime.Now.AddDays(-465)),
new Book("Book-title3", DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-45))
});
XmlAuthorSerializer xas = new XmlAuthorSerializer();
xas.SerializeAuthor(author1, "author1.xml");
Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("----Build-in XML Serializer output----");
Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine(File.ReadAllText("author1.xml"));
Author author2 = xas.DeserializeAuthor("author1.xml");
CustomAuthorSerializer bas = new CustomAuthorSerializer();
bas.SerializeAuthor(author2, "author2.txt");
Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("-----Custom author serialization-----");
Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine(File.ReadAllText("author2.txt"));
Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------");
var author3 = bas.DeserializeAuthor("author2.txt");
Console.WriteLine("---Used author---");
Console.WriteLine($"Name: {author3.Name}");
Console.WriteLine($"Email: {author3.Email}");
Console.WriteLine("Books: ");
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(Environment.NewLine, author3.Books));
Console.WriteLine("--------------------------------------");
Console.ReadKey();
}
// Using built in serialization in XML format
public void Serializing(Author author, string path)
{
if (author == null)
{
return;
}
try
{
XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(author.GetType());
using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
{
serializer.Serialize(stream, author);
stream.Position = 0;
xmldoc.Load(stream);
xmldoc.Save(path);
stream.Close();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
}
}
public static void Main()
{
// IAuthorSerializer mySerializer = new AuthorSerializer();
IAuthorSerializer mySerializer = new CustomTextSerializer();
List<Book> books = new List<Book>();
books.Add(new Book() { Title = "Harry Potter", PublishDate = DateTime.Now });
books.Add(new Book() { Title = "Intro to programming", PublishDate = DateTime.Now });
books.Add(new Book() { Title = "Lineage", PublishDate = DateTime.Now });
Author author = new Author() { Name = "Pesho", Books = books, Email = "*****@*****.**" };
mySerializer.Serializing(author, "pesho.txt");
Author pesho = mySerializer.Deserializing("pesho.txt");
Console.WriteLine(pesho.Name);
Console.WriteLine(pesho.Email);
Console.WriteLine("Books Count: " + pesho.Books.Count);
foreach (var book in pesho.Books)
{
Console.WriteLine("- {0} : {1}", book.Title, book.PublishDate.ToShortDateString());
}
}
//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);
}
}
}
