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Serializes and deserializes an entity to a base 64 string
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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
namespace Presentation.Web.MVC.Client.Extensions.Utilities
{
/// <summary>
/// This class serializes and deserializes an entity to a base 64 string.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">Type of the entity to be serialized or deserialized.</typeparam>
public class SelfTrackingEntityBase64Converter<T>
{
#region Members
/// <summary>
/// Deserializes the entity from a base 64 string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value">The base 64 string containing the serialized entity.</param>
/// <returns>The resulting entity after deserialization.</returns>
public T ToEntity(string value)
{
var bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(value);
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream(bytes);
DataContractSerializer deserializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(T));
T result = (T)deserializer.ReadObject(memStream);
return result;
}
/// <summary>
/// Serialized the entity to a base 64 string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="entity">The entity to be serialized.</param>
/// <returns>The base 64 string containing the serialized entity.</returns>
public string ToBase64(T entity)
{
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(T));
serializer.WriteObject(memStream, entity);
string result = Convert.ToBase64String(memStream.ToArray());
return result;
}
#endregion
}
}
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