I am tryind to deserialize a xml file into an object[] - the object is a rectangle with the following fields
public class Rectangle : IXmlSerializable
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public Point TopLeft { get; set; }
public Point BottomRight { get; set; }
public RgbColor Color { get; set; }
}
I created several rectangles, saved them into an array and managed to serialize them into the xml i get the following syntax:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <Rectangles>
- <Rectangle>
<ID>First one</ID>
- <TopLeft>
<X>0.06</X>
<Y>0.4</Y>
</TopLeft>
- <BottomRight>
<X>0.12</X>
<Y>0.13</Y>
</BottomRight>
- <RGB_Color>
<Blue>5</Blue>
<Red>205</Red>
<Green>60</Green>
</RGB_Color>
</Rectangle>
-
Now i want to deserialize the rectangle objects back into a new rectangle[] how should i do it?
XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Rectangle));
FileStream myFileStream = new FileStream("rectangle.xml", FileMode.Open);
Rectangle[] r = new Rectangle[] {};
Rectangle rec;
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
{
r[i] = (Rectangle) mySerializer.Deserialize(myFileStream);
}
i get a InvalidOperationException - {"There is an error in XML document (1, 40)."} what am i doing wrong?
Thank you
If your XML document is valid, you should be able to use this codes to deserialize it:
XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer( typeof( Rectangle[] ), new XmlRootAttribute( "Rectangles" ) );
using ( FileStream myFileStream = new FileStream( "rectangle.xml", FileMode.Open ) )
{
Rectangle[] r;
r = ( Rectangle[] ) mySerializer.Deserialize( myFileStream );
}