Question

I need to define a method parameter that should ideally only accept object arguments that have been decorated with the Serializable attribute. The method task is to persist the object argument into a XML document.

I understand I can eventually check for SerializationException, but i’d rather be able to neatly define this as a part of the method contract. So, is there any way I can isolate types that have been decorated with this attribute?

Answer 1

One option is to use the IsSerializable property of the Type class:

public void Serialize(object obj)
{
    if (obj.GetType().IsSerializable)
    {
        // do work
    }
}