Using multiple custom serializers for complex type

First of all, thank you for your good work and I found this library useful. I ran into a situation that needs to implement multiple custom serializers.

public class ParentType {
   public ChildType Child { get; set; }
}

public class ParentTypeSerializer : IExtendedXmlCustomSerializer<ParentType> {
    public void Serializer(XmlWriter writer, ParentType obj) {
          // How to tell this serializer that calls ChildTypeSerializer?
          // writer.WriteValue(obj.Child);
    }
}

public class ChildTypeSerializer : IExtendedXmlCustomSerializer<ChildType> {
    public void Serializer(XmlWriter writer, ChildType obj) {
          // Writer does something here
    }
}

// Registration
var serializer = new ConfigurationContainer()
    .Type<ParentType>()
    .CustomSerializer(new ParentTypeSerializer())
    .Type<ChildType>()
    .CustomSerializer(new ChildTypeSerializer())
    .Create();

If I got a customer serializer for both ParentType and ChildType, how do parent serializer ask ChildTypeSerializer to handle obj.Child property based on the type?

[Mike-E-angelo]

Closing this issue as it has been deployed in 2.1.0: #162

Please feel free to open an issue if you encounter any further problems

[Mike-E-angelo]

Alright, I’ve just committed an improvement that addresses this and a couple of other issues around registering serializers around types. The best example of this is here: https://github.com/wojtpl2/ExtendedXmlSerializer/blob/master/test/ExtendedXmlSerializer.Tests/ReportedIssues/Issue154Tests.cs#L50-L64

You can now reference a type as the serializer, and that type can hold registered dependencies (such as the global ISerializers class or the ICustomXmlSerializers that can get other serializers based on types. Here is an example: https://github.com/wojtpl2/ExtendedXmlSerializer/blob/master/test/ExtendedXmlSerializer.Tests/ReportedIssues/Issue154Tests.cs#L174-L186

Again this works for both type-registration and member-registration. The IExtendedXmlCustomSerializer is for xml-based serialization (v1), but we also have the ISerializer which is sort of the root serialization object used in v2. This can be used with the Register extension method as described here: https://github.com/wojtpl2/ExtendedXmlSerializer/blob/master/test/ExtendedXmlSerializer.Tests/ReportedIssues/Issue154Tests.cs#L66-L81

Let me know if you have any questions around any of this. 😃