Question

I have a three classes that are serialized into XML data via XMLserializer Method. Is there a way to make the method accessible by all of them rather than have three xmlserialize methods in my code.

//Here I'm writing to my class with the data that needs to be serialized                  
PERSON r = new PERSON();
Input l = new Search.Input();
INPUTSEARCHNBR ln = new INPUTSEARCHNBR();
ln.number = pnumber;                  
r.query = ln;                
string xml = doSerialization(r);

//Call the xmlserializer method 
private static string doSerialization(PERSON r)
{
    string serializedValue = string.Empty;

    try
    {
        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(r.GetType());

        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            xmlSerializer.Serialize(ms, r);

            ms.Position = 0;
            var sr = new StreamReader(ms);
            serializedValue = sr.ReadToEnd();
        }


        serializedVal = serializedValue.Replace("version=\"0\"", string.Empty).Replace("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>", string.Empty).Replace("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>", string.Empty);
    }

    return serializedVal;
} 

My code repeats this two more time for two different classes, it writes to the class and then calls another xmlserialize method
because the input of the method is a different class type.
Is there are a way to make the method public or have as a class or any other way so that I don’t have to paste two additional
xmlserialize method that are exactly the same but the input class is different.

Answer 1

Since you don’t do anything that is class specific, you could type object:

private static string doSerialization(object r)
{
    ...