Serialize an Interface (Collection of Generics)?

[Insider1984]

Here is my initial problem which you guys helped with very quickly (THANK YOU)

http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1235612

I have a variable that keeps a list of Interfaces which lead to generic classes under them with very similar functions. I serialize the links out and read them in and things seem to work okay.... almost.... when I debug through the list... it is created with the right size but it's empty (null).


Any ideas?

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Insider
4 year 'on the fly' programmer
C, C++, C#, MFC, Basic, Java ASP.NET

 

[chrissie1]

code please.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[Insider1984]

Humm actually, I looked into this a little bit more and can give more details.

The order of serialization tends to be:

Tool
InputItems
OutputItems

On deserialization however....the order changes

OutputItems
Tools
InputItems


I bomb because in Tools, Inputitems is created but their values are null until they are constructed after Tools. Tools uses these values on initialization.

InputItems and Output Items are both Generic children of ParamItems..... I talk to ParamItems through an interface IParamItems.

So the question is.... what controls the order of deserializing? Can I force a change of order? If so, how?


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Insider
4 year 'on the fly' programmer
C, C++, C#, MFC, Basic, Java ASP.NET