forki / sillyxml

SillyXml

Immutable class XML serialization for the people!

With C#6 we can finally write immutable classes without going insane by using the new getter-only property syntax.

public class ImmutableClass {
    public ImmutableClass(string fruit) {
        Fruit = fruit;
    }

    public string Fruit { get; }
}

However if we try to serialize this class with the XmlSerializer class in the standard library it won't work since it doesn't have a parameterless constructor and since the property has no setters - so we're forced to add those or create a separate class just for the serialization. Both of these options feel pretty bad - and thus this library was born.

Getting started

SillyXml is available on Nuget, so to add it to your project simply do

Install-Package SillyXml

or if you prefer using Paket add the following to your paket.dependencies

nuget SillyXml

Serializing an object to XML

SillyXml has a super-simple API, to serialize an object just do

string xml = XmlSerializer.ToXml(new ImmutableClass("Banana"));

and that's it!

Issues and problems

Please register issues on the github issue tracker if you find any bugs or features that you feel should be added.

License and contributions

This project is licensed under the Apache License.

Contributions are welcome, just fork and send a pull request.
If you wish to discuss any potential features etc just open an issue in the issue tracker.