How to serialize an ICollection that also has read/write properties to XML

Question

I have class that implement list of custom class. That class also has two properties. But when I serialize that class, XML contains only array of my custom classes but don\'

Answer 1

I've uploaded my serialization library to Github, where such issues are handled.

Atlas Xml Serializer

I'm assuming that you have below data classes. I've just added [XmlElement] attribute over properties to force them serialize into xml elements.

public class Porudzbina : List, IEnumerable
{
    [XmlElement]
    public long KomSifra { get; set; }

    [XmlElement]
    public Guid KomId { get; set; }

    IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
    {
        var sqlRow = new SqlDataRecord(
              new SqlMetaData("rb", SqlDbType.Int),
              new SqlMetaData("RobaSifra", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 50),
              new SqlMetaData("RobaNaziv", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 100)
             );
        foreach (PorudzbenicaStavka por in this)
        {
            sqlRow.SetInt32(0, por.rb);
            sqlRow.SetString(1, por.RobaSifra);
            sqlRow.SetString(2, por.RobaNaziv);
            yield return sqlRow;
        }
    }
}

public class PorudzbenicaStavka
{
    [XmlElement]
    public int rb { get; set; }

    [XmlElement]
    public string RobaSifra { get; set; }

    [XmlElement]
    public string RobaNaziv { get; set;  }
}

And here's the instance:

var o = new Porudzbina
{
    new PorudzbenicaStavka { rb=1, RobaSifra="3702", RobaNaziv="Foullon mlecna cokolada 33% Ecuador 100g" },
    new PorudzbenicaStavka { rb=2, RobaSifra="1182", RobaNaziv="IL Capitano zelena maslina sa paprikom 720g" },
    new PorudzbenicaStavka { rb=3, RobaSifra="1120", RobaNaziv="Kaiser tuna steak sa papricicom u ulju 170g." },
};

o.KomId = new Guid("{EC63AEC3-1512-451F-B967-836DD0E9820A}");
o.KomSifra = 999999;

And here's how atlas xml serialization library does the job:

var serialized = Atlas.Xml.Serializer.Serialize(o, true);
var deserialized = Atlas.Xml.Serializer.Deserialize(serialized);

Xml would look like this:

  999999
  ec63aec3-1512-451f-b967-836dd0e9820a
  
    1
    3702
    Foullon mlecna cokolada 33% Ecuador 100g
  
  
    2
    1182
    IL Capitano zelena maslina sa paprikom 720g
  
  
    3
    1120
    Kaiser tuna steak sa papricicom u ulju 170g.
  

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If you change the data class like this:

[Atlas.Xml.XmlSerializationType(ChildElementName = "PorudzbenicaStavka")]
public class Porudzbina : List, IEnumerable
{
    public long KomSifra { get; set; }
    public Guid KomId { get; set; }
    // ...
}

public class PorudzbenicaStavka
{
    public int rb { get; set; }
    public string RobaSifra { get; set; }

    [XmlText]
    public string RobaNaziv { get; set;  }
}

Then, serialized class would be like this:

  Foullon mlecna cokolada 33% Ecuador 100g
  IL Capitano zelena maslina sa paprikom 720g
  Kaiser tuna steak sa papricicom u ulju 170g.