Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) uses a serialization engine called the Data Contract Serializer by default to serialize and deserialize data (convert it to and from XML). All .NET Framework primitive types, such as integers and strings, as well as certain types treated as primitives, such as DateTime and XmlElement, can be serialized with no other preparation and are considered as having default data contracts. Many .NET Framework types also have existing data contracts. For a full list of serializable types, see Types Supported by the Data Contract Serializer.
Datacontract Serialization Attributes
New complex types that you create must have a data contract defined for them to be serializable. By default, the DataContractSerializer infers the data contract and serializes all publicly visible types. All public read/write properties and fields of the type are serialized. You can opt out members from serialization by using the IgnoreDataMemberAttribute. You can also explicitly create a data contract by using DataContractAttribute and DataMemberAttribute attributes. This is normally done by applying the DataContractAttribute attribute to the type. This attribute can be applied to classes, structures, and enumerations. The DataMemberAttribute attribute must then be applied to each member of the data contract type to indicate that it is a data member, that is, it should be serialized. For more information, see Serializable Types.
The following example shows a service contract (an interface) to which the ServiceContractAttribute and OperationContractAttribute attributes have been explicitly applied. The example shows that primitive types do not require a data contract, while a complex type does.
The IgnoreDataMemberAttribute attribute is only honored when used with unmarked types. This includes types that are not marked with one of the DataContractAttribute, SerializableAttribute, CollectionDataContractAttribute, or EnumMemberAttribute attributes, or marked as serializable by any other means (such as IXmlSerializable).
You can do this with theDataContractSerializer - the answer isto take over the Xml serializationyourself by implementing theIXmlSerializable interface. Forwrite-only support - you can leave theimplementation of ReadXml empty, andreturn null for GetSchema, and thenwrite the implementation of WriteXmlas follows:
If you're using the same type for, say, JSON serialization as well, then you are still free to add the DataContract and DataMember attributes - the DataContractSerializer will utilise the IXmlSerializable interface implementation only when writing Xml.
You can't do this with the DataContractSerializer; if you want attributes you need to use the XmlSerializer instead. With the DataContractSerializer class a more restrictive subset of the XML specification is permitted which improves performance, and improves the interoperability of published services, but gives you rather less control over the XML format.
Apply the DataContractAttribute attribute to types (classes, structures, or enumerations) that are used in serialization and deserialization operations by the DataContractSerializer. If you send or receive messages by using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) infrastructure, you should also apply the DataContractAttribute to any classes that hold and manipulate data sent in messages. For more information about data contracts, see Using Data Contracts.
However this implementation does not support registered event handlers, which is _un_supported by deserializing, too. Additionally each object in the hierarchy will be broken, if its class' constructor needs to initialize anything but setting all fields. The last point only work with serialization, if the class has a respective implementation, e.g. method marked [OnDeserialized], implements ISerializable,... .
To accomplish this, Dynamics AX provides concept of Data Contracts. Data Contracts are used to specify the input and return parameters for Services. Microsoft Dynamics AX utilizes the WCF data contracts to use .Net and X++ data types (both basic and complex). The serialization and deserialization of Data Contracts is handled by WCF framework itself.
I am trying to consume the Multi header jason file in D365 I have used the multi contact class to to consume the same .But when i am reading the attributes i am getting the error saying child node not declared. I am sharing the sample jason file and error which i am getting.Please help me to resolve.
3) "Can I use the datacontract in C# code?" It depends. When compiling to CIL, X++ data contracts are translated to .NET data contracts. You can use them in your code by a little hack I described in Data contract serialization from X++. On the other hand, attributes are ignored when creating proxy classes from X++ types.
- There is currently a limitation to the parameters you can pass to the DataContract and DataMember attributes. In fact, you can use the DataContract and DataMember attributes normally, but if you need to specify some additional properties, such as the Name in [DataContract(Name="TheName")], it will not work because JSIL is currently unable to retain those properties (it only retains the constructor parameters of the attributes). Therefore, instead, you need to use the "DataContract2" and "DataMember2" classes, and pass the parameters to their constructor, like this: [DataContract2(TheName: "TheName")]. Notice that we use the colons (":") instead of the equal sign ("=") because we are passing constructor named arguments instead of directly setting the properties of the attribute. We are working to fix this limitation. If you need more information, please contact us.
WCF data contract has the below attributes. Name Name is a string property of DataContract that allows you to give a meaningful name to your data contract. The default value for the Name attribute is the name of the class. One of the possible use of Name property is to set it with a value which is not allowed as Type name for example the "Order#" is not allowed as Type name but you can set it as value for the Name attribute of data contract.
DataContractSerializer is a sealed class and inherited from XmlObjectSerializer, included in System.Runtime.Serialization namespace. It serializes and deserializes data contracts or data types into XML. Windows Communication Foundation by default uses DataContractSerializer for serialization and deserialization.
DataMember has the below attributes. EmitDefaultValue DataMember EmitDefaultValue is a Boolean attribute with the default value of true. If the value is not provided for DataMember then the corresponding default value will be set to the member for example integer it will be set as 0, for bool it is false, any reference type is null. If you do not want to use the default value to set then mark this attribute to false. Marking this as false will help you for reducing request response size and better interoperability.
DataMember IsRequired is a Boolean attribute with the default value of false. If the value for DataMember is required then set it to true else mark it as false. If IsRequired is marked as true with EmitDefaultValue as true and value is not provided while serialization then the default value will be emitted. If IsRequired is marked as true with EmitDefaultValue as false and value is not provided while serialization then SerializationException will be thrown.
EnumMemberAttribute allows you to create new Enumeration for DataContract. For marking the enum member use [EnumMember] to members. All the members which are required in serialization and deserialization must mark as [EnumMember].
As we know that WCF exchange information in XML format. Data contract defines which data type is serialized (convert into Xml). Primitive data types like int, string etc. serialized already as they defined in XSD (Xml Schema Definition). But custom data types like classes are not.Wcf uses serialization engine i.e. Data Contract Serializer by default to serialize and Deserialize the data.
Now we know how we could serialize custom data or class without using DataContractSerlializer. But if we notice all the public property are serialized. If we want to hide some of public property from serialization then we will use IgnoreDataMember
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Serialization is a complex process. If a data structure contains a graph of objects that have a large number of associations between them, the serialization process will have to persist each of these associations in the stored file.
We are going to use some sample music track data to illustrate how serialization works. The code shown next is the MusicTrack, Artist, and MusicDataStore objects that you are going to be working with. The MusicDataStore type holds lists of MusicTrack and Artist values. It also holds a method called TestData that creates a test music store that can be used in our examples.
The binary serialization classes are held in the System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary namespace. The code next shows how binary serialization is performed. It creates a test MusicDataStore object and then saves it to a binary file. An instance of the BinaryFormatter class provides a Serialize behavior that accepts an object and a stream as parameters. The Serialize behavior serializes the object to a stream. 2ff7e9595c
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