I wouldnt want to define my variables as public, so I defined them as private, but exposed them through public properties, in which we could implement value checks etc. I annotated those properties with the [XmlElement] attribute so that each of those properties when serialized would become an XML Element as you would see shortly. I did similar with the name class. Note that you need to define default constructors.
public class PhoneNumber
{
int _countryCode;
int _cityCode;
int _number;
[XmlElement("CountryCode")]
public int CountryCode
{
set { _countryCode = value; }
get { return _countryCode; }
}
[XmlElement("CityCode")]
public int CityCode
{
set { _cityCode = value; }
get { return _cityCode; }
}
[XmlElement("Number")]
public int Number
{
set { _number = value; }
get { return _number; }
}
public PhoneNumber(int countryCode, int cityCode, int number)
{
_countryCode = countryCode;
_cityCode = cityCode;
_number = number;
}
public PhoneNumber()
{
}
}
public class Name
{
string _firstName;
string _middleName;
string _lastName;
public Name(string firstName, string middleName, string lastName)
{
_firstName = firstName;
_middleName = middleName;
_lastName = lastName;
}
public Name()
{
}
[XmlElement("firstname")]
public string FirstName
{
get { return _firstName; }
set { _firstName = value; }
}
[XmlElement("middlename")]
public string MiddleName
{
get { return _middleName; }
set { _middleName = value; }
}
[XmlElement("lastname")]
public string LastName
{
get { return _lastName; }
set { _lastName = value; }
}
}
Then, I defined the Record class that aggregates Name and PhoneNumber. I defined private members for name and phone number and exposed them through public properties, annotated with [XmlElement] attributes.
public class Record
{
Name _name;
PhoneNumber _phoneNumber;
[XmlElement("Name")]
public Name name
{
set { _name = value; }
get { return _name; }
}
[XmlElement("PhoneNumber")]
public PhoneNumber phoneNumber
{
set { _phoneNumber = value; }
get { return _phoneNumber; }
}
public Record()
{
}
}
Then, our top level class, which I was too lazy to rename from the VS .NET name Class1, I annotated it with the [XmlRoot] attribute to provide a name for the XML root element. Then, in the accessors for the records, I annotated it with the [XmlElement] attribute so that the name and phone number elements would be nested inside a Record element and Record elements would be inside the root element. Of course, there can only be one XML root element for a document. I also implemented a get accessor indexer so that you could access collection elements through array-like syntax. The rest of the code isnt too difficult to follow.
[XmlRoot("NameList")]
public class Class1
{
ArrayList _nameList;
public Class1()
{
_nameList = new ArrayList();
}
[XmlElement("Record")]
public Record[] Records
{
get
{
Record[] names = new Record[_nameList.Count];
_nameList.CopyTo(names);
return names;
}
set
{
if ( value == null )
return;
Record[] names = (Record[]) value;
_nameList.Clear();
foreach (Record name in value)
_nameList.Add(name);
}
}
public Record this [int index]
{
get
{
return (index < _nameList.Count) ? (Record) _nameList[index] : (Record) null;
}
}
public void Add(Record rec)
{
if (rec != null)
_nameList.Add(rec);
}
///
/// The main entry point for the application.
///
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Class1 oMain = new Class1();
Name hisName = new Name("Adnan", "Farooq", "Hashmi");
Name anotherName = new Name("Hammad", "", "Rajjoub");
PhoneNumber ph1 = new PhoneNumber(92, 21, 888222);
PhoneNumber ph2 = new PhoneNumber(92, 21, 777333);
Record rec1 = new Record();
rec1.name = hisName;
rec1.phoneNumber = ph1;
Record rec2 = new Record();
rec2.name = anotherName;
rec2.phoneNumber = ph2;
oMain.Add(rec1);
oMain.Add(rec2);
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Class1));
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("data.xml");
ser.Serialize(sw,oMain);
sw.Close();
}
}
I was a bit miserly with comments on this, which is rare. The reason is that I had a couple of other programs to do today, and I also had to do extra time on campus this morning to finish off some unfinished business.
If you're as lazy as I am, or even beat me, which is difficult, because lazy people are too lazy to beat others, just download the source code. I am including the XML file for good measure. Dont blame me for the stupid application, I am a lousy developer.
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