Generic Method for Deserilization and Serialization in C#

This blog shows Generic serialize and deserialize methods that can be easily used when needing to serialize and deserialize classes.

The below code will serialize an object into JSON and deserialize that JSON back into the object using Generic Method.

Adding the Namespace

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;

Generic Json Serialization

public static string JsonSerializer<T>(T t)
{
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
        ser.WriteObject(ms, t);
        string jsonString = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
        ms.Close();
        return jsonString;
}  

Generic Json Deserialization

public static T JsonDeserialize<T>(string jsonString)
{
        DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(T));
        MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonString));
        T obj = (T)ser.ReadObject(ms);
        return obj;
}

Calling the Methods.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{  
        Person p = new Person();
        p.Name = "Tony";
        p.Age = 23;
        string jsonString = JsonSerializer<Person>(p);
        Response.Write(jsonString);       
        Person pp = JsonDeserialize<Person>(jsonString );
 }

public class Person
{
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public int Age { get; set; }
}