Question

I have a common code of serializing a class object in my 3-4 methods ,So I am thinking to create a common function for that code and call function in all the methods

I am doingn this from the following code

DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(this.GetType()); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); ser.WriteObject(ms, this);  json = Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray());  ms.Close(); 

I want to put this common code in seprate general function which returns Json string and which accept whole class as input parameter as I am converting whole class into a Json object , I tried creating function like

public string GenerateJsonString(class C1)

but this is giving me error on the keyword ‘class’ saying that type is required

Can anyone tell me how can I accept whole class object in seprate method or function

Answer 1

You are confusing a ‘class’ with an ‘object’. You serialize an object, which is an instance of a particular class (aka ‘Type’).

You can create a method taking a parameter of the .NET base type for all objects, ‘object’, like this:

public static string GenerateJsonString(object o)  {     DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(o.GetType());     using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())     {         ser.WriteObject(ms, o);         json = Encoding.Default.GetString(ms.ToArray());         ms.Close();         return json;     } }