Question

If a program has literally just deserialized an object (doesn’t really matter how, but just say BinaryFormatter was used).

What is a good design to use for re-injecting the dependencies of this object?

Is there a common pattern for this?

I suppose I would need to wrap the Deserialize() method up to act as a factory inside the container.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You shouldn’t serialize objects with dependencies that can’t themselves be serialized.

Instead, split it into two classes: extract the serializable parts into a separate class.

After deserializing, you can associate the resulting object with an instance of the original class (the one with dependencies).