RSB: serializer issues

[Vadim Kantorov]

Found out XmlMessageSerializer doesn't support Dictionaries and
subclasses of generic collections (sublcasses of Dictionary or List).

var ms = new MemoryStream();
var serializer = new XmlMessageSerializer(new DefaultReflection(), new
DefaultKernel());
serializer.Serialize(new []{new Dictionary<string, int>{{"abs", 1}}},
ms );
ms.Position = 0;
serializer.Deserialize(ms);

Am I missing anything?

[Mike Nichols]

doesn't this have to do with dictionaries not being serializable in .net?

[Corey Kaylor]

The XmlMessageSerializer technically does not (last I remember) put any constraints for things to be serializable. I am pretty sure a patch would be acceptable, or other alternatives would be to implement ICustomElementSerializer.

[Ayende Rahien]

Yep, a patch would be welcome

[Udi Dahan]

Keep in mind that when serializing a Dictionary<T, K> you need to
recursively open up each of the enclosed types.

This took a bit of work to get right in NServiceBus.

-- Udi Dahan