Question

I have a class which i am serializing. I annotated it with [Serializable] and i am using binary serializer. Everything works fine.

But later i introduced new properties, which cannot be serialized (lets say they contain a lot of mess about GUI which does not need to be rembered). I can compute these properties based on other properties of class.

I need to do it two times, when I serialize – clean mess and enter stabile state ready for serialization. And deserialization – again compute all needed properties.

I need to react on ‘events’ instance is being serialized/deserialized.

However I can’t find these events because I am not implementing the interface ISerializable or abstract class Aserializable but only class atribute [Serializable].

I do not know when class is being serialized because it is not the concern of this class; it is serialized as a field of another class.

Is there a way I can react on those events?

Answer 1

You can use OnDeserializedAttribute and its related attributes (OnSerializing, OnSerialized, OnDeserializing) to create special methods that are called during the serialization/deserialization process.