OoasTools

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// C5 example: serialization and deserialization 

// Compile with 

//   csc /r:C5.dll SerializationExample.cs 

using System;

using C5;

using SCG = System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;                                        // FileStream, Stream

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;   // BinaryFormatter

namespace SerializationExample

{

  class MyTest

  {

    private static readonly BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();

    public static void ToFile<T>(IExtensible<T> coll, String filename) {

      Stream outstream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.OpenOrCreate);

      formatter.Serialize(outstream, coll);

      outstream.Close();

    }

    public static T FromFile<T>(String filename) {

      Stream instream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open);

      Object obj = formatter.Deserialize(instream);

      instream.Close();

      return (T)obj;

    }

    public static void Main() {

      IList<String> names = new LinkedList<String>();

      String reagan = "Reagan";

      names.AddAll(new String[] { reagan, reagan, "Bush", "Clinton", 

                                  "Clinton", "Bush", "Bush" });

      ToFile(names, "prez.bin");

      IList<String> namesFromFile = FromFile<IList<String>>("prez.bin");

      foreach (String s in namesFromFile) 

        Console.WriteLine(s);

      Console.Write("Deserialization preserves sequenced equality: ");

      Console.WriteLine(names.SequencedEquals(namesFromFile));

      Console.Write("Deserialization reuses the same strings: ");

      Console.WriteLine(Object.ReferenceEquals(reagan, namesFromFile[1]));

      Console.Write("Deserialization preserves sharing: ");

      Console.WriteLine(Object.ReferenceEquals(namesFromFile[0], namesFromFile[1]));

    }

  }

}