Question

Have the following XML model

<A></A>
<B></B>
<C></C>
<D></D>

Also have three classes

class Foo1{
  public string A;
  public string B;
}
class Foo2{
  public string C;
  public string D;
}

class FooUnited{
  public Foo1 foo1;
  public Foo2 foo2;
}

The problem. I want to deserialize xml into object of FooUnited type. The brute-force idea is to manually select values from xml and initialize FooUnited object, but maybe there is a more elegant solution for that?

Answer 1

Assuming you have a root element you can use a DTO to wrap up the differences:

public class MyDto {
    public string A {get;set;}
    public string B {get;set;}
    public string C {get;set;}
    public string D {get;set;}

    public FooUnited GetObject() {
        return new FooUnited {
            foo1 = new Foo1 { A = this.A, B = this.B },
            foo2 = new Foo2 { C = this.C, D = this.D },
        };
    }
}