diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 23745c8..7eef7e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
- Added enum extensions for finding the inclusion and exclusion of enum flags
- Added DateTime extensions for adding years, months, days, hours, minutes and wrapping without modifying other values
- Added shims for deserializing an XML array using a callback for each item
+ - Added methods for serializing an XML array
## [10.2.0] - 2019-12-04
### Added
diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/IcdXmlConvert.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/IcdXmlConvert.cs
index 7e97934..ac49839 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/IcdXmlConvert.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/IcdXmlConvert.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
+using ICD.Common.Properties;
using ICD.Common.Utils.IO;
#if SIMPLSHARP
using Crestron.SimplSharp.CrestronXml;
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
{
public static class IcdXmlConvert
{
+ #region Object Serialization
+
///
/// Serializes the given instance to an xml string.
///
@@ -114,6 +117,61 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
return converter.ReadXml(reader);
}
+ #endregion
+
+ #region Array Serialization
+
+ ///
+ /// Serializes the sequence to XML.
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ public static void SerializeArray(string elementName, string childElementName, [NotNull] IcdXmlTextWriter writer,
+ [NotNull] IEnumerable items)
+ {
+ if (writer == null)
+ throw new ArgumentNullException("writer");
+
+ if (items == null)
+ throw new ArgumentNullException("items");
+
+ IXmlConverter converter = XmlConverterAttribute.GetConverterForType(typeof(T));
+
+ SerializeArray(elementName, childElementName, writer, items, (w, element, item) => converter.WriteXml(w, element, item));
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Serializes the sequence to XML.
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ ///
+ public static void SerializeArray(string elementName, string childElementName, [NotNull] IcdXmlTextWriter writer,
+ [NotNull] IEnumerable items, [NotNull] Action serializeItem)
+ {
+ if (writer == null)
+ throw new ArgumentNullException("writer");
+
+ if (items == null)
+ throw new ArgumentNullException("items");
+
+ if (serializeItem == null)
+ throw new ArgumentNullException("serializeItem");
+
+ writer.WriteStartElement(elementName);
+ {
+ foreach (T item in items)
+ serializeItem(writer, childElementName, item);
+ }
+ writer.WriteEndElement();
+ }
+
///
/// Deserializes the child elements as items in an array.
///
@@ -162,7 +220,7 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
IXmlConverter converter = XmlConverterAttribute.GetConverterForType(type);
- return DeserializeArray(type, reader, r => converter.ReadXml(r));
+ return DeserializeArray(type, reader, converter.ReadXml);
}
///
@@ -209,6 +267,10 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
reader.Read();
}
+ #endregion
+
+ #region Value Serialization
+
public static string ToString(int value)
{
return XmlConvert.ToString(value);
@@ -431,5 +493,7 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
{
return XmlConvert.ToUInt64(data);
}
+
+ #endregion
}
}