public ContentTypeSerializer GetTypeSerializer(Type type)
{
// Create the known serializers if we haven't already.
if (_serializers == null)
{
_serializers = new Dictionary <Type, ContentTypeSerializer>();
var types = ContentTypeSerializerAttribute.GetTypes();
foreach (var t in types)
{
if (!t.IsGenericType)
{
var cts = Activator.CreateInstance(t) as ContentTypeSerializer;
cts.Initialize(this);
_serializers.Add(cts.TargetType, cts);
}
}
}
// Look it up.
ContentTypeSerializer serializer;
if (_serializers.TryGetValue(type, out serializer))
{
return(serializer);
}
// If we still don't have a serializer then
// fallback to the reflection based serializer.
if (serializer == null)
{
serializer = new ReflectiveSerializer(type);
serializer.Initialize(this);
}
_serializers.Add(type, serializer);
return(serializer);
}
public ContentTypeSerializer GetTypeSerializer(Type type)
{
// Create the known serializers if we haven't already.
if (_serializers == null)
{
_serializers = new Dictionary <Type, ContentTypeSerializer>();
_genericSerializerTypes = new Dictionary <Type, Type>();
var types = ContentTypeSerializerAttribute.GetTypes();
foreach (var t in types)
{
if (t.IsGenericType)
{
var genericType = t.BaseType.GetGenericArguments()[0];
_genericSerializerTypes.Add(genericType.GetGenericTypeDefinition(), t);
}
else
{
var cts = Activator.CreateInstance(t) as ContentTypeSerializer;
cts.Initialize(this);
_serializers.Add(cts.TargetType, cts);
}
}
}
// Look it up.
ContentTypeSerializer serializer;
if (_serializers.TryGetValue(type, out serializer))
{
return(serializer);
}
Type serializerType;
if (type.IsArray)
{
if (type.GetArrayRank() != 1)
{
throw new RankException("We only support single dimension arrays.");
}
var arrayType = typeof(ArraySerializer <>).MakeGenericType(new[] { type.GetElementType() });
serializer = (ContentTypeSerializer)Activator.CreateInstance(arrayType);
}
else if (type.IsGenericType && _genericSerializerTypes.TryGetValue(type.GetGenericTypeDefinition(), out serializerType))
{
serializerType = serializerType.MakeGenericType(type.GetGenericArguments());
serializer = (ContentTypeSerializer)Activator.CreateInstance(serializerType);
}
else if (type.IsEnum)
{
serializer = new EnumSerializer(type);
}
else if (typeof(IList).IsAssignableFrom(type))
{
// Special handling for non-generic IList types. By the time we get here,
// generic collection types will already have been handled by one of the known serializers.
serializer = new NonGenericIListSerializer(type);
}
else
{
// The reflective serializer is not for primitive types!
if (type.IsPrimitive)
{
throw new NotImplementedException(string.Format("Unhandled primitive type `{0}`!", type.FullName));
}
// We still don't have a serializer then we
// fallback to the reflection based serializer.
serializer = new ReflectiveSerializer(type);
}
Debug.Assert(serializer.TargetType == type, "Target type mismatch!");
// We cache the serializer before we initialize it to
// avoid a stack overflow on recursive types.
_serializers.Add(type, serializer);
serializer.Initialize(this);
return(serializer);
}