Related to my service, I am doing some custom persistence in the building a in-memory database over Redis used for testing, and I am stuck trying to deserialize generic objects, and was wondering if I can still use ServiceStack serialization routines to avoid going to another library.
I have a serialized object coming back from storage, represented by the following JSON:
{
"Properties": {
"AKey": "\"AAECAwQFBgcICQA=\"",
"ExpiresUtc": "\"2001-05-21T12:51:25.0000000+00:00\""
},
"Id": "2f34f9f6-1584-4cd6-b535-c54722569f24",
"RowKey": "2f34f9f6-1584-4cd6-b535-c54722569f24",
"RowVersion": "0",
"Timestamp": "2000-05-21T12:51:25.0000000+00:00"
}
My job is to deserialise it to any typed object, like this one (in this case):
public class MyCustomEntity : BaseEntity
{
public byte[] AKey { get; set; }
public DateTime ExpiresUtc { get; set; }
}
where BaseEntity
has all the other properties on it, like: Id
, RowVersion
etc.
I have a generic method: TEntity Deserialize<TEntity>(string json)
in which to do my deserializaiton.
This would normally be a single call to JsonSerializer.Deserialize()
, except for the fact that I have one thing that is not quite normal in this picture.
If you look closely, at AKey
and ExpiryDate
you notice they have been serialized as individual properties, and therefore they are quoted in "
because they are byte[]
and DateTime
types. All other types are serialized just fine.
I am confident ServiceStack has all the classes I need here, but I am not sure of the approach with those classes. Can someone suggest a straightforward approach, and which classes to use to achieve this?