Re: [Ikvm-developers] Serialization of .Net objects

[Todd S. <tod...@gm...>]

I assume that to do what you suggest, I would need to run ikvmstub
on the ikvm runtime assembly to create a jar that the java code
could then use to invoke getInstanceTypeFromClass().  Is this
correct?

On 8/31/06, Jeroen Frijters <je...@su...> wrote:
>
> Todd Stout wrote:
> > I would like the users of the framework to be able to write C# classes
> > without introducing  the ikvm-specific Serializable.__Interface.
> > Can this be achieved?  Is there something that the java library could
> > look for to indicate that the C# class has the [Serializable]
> > attribute?
>
> If you're using 0.31 (the current development version) then you can use
> ikvm.runtime.Util.getInstanceTypeFromClass() to go from a
> java.lang.Class to a System.Type and then you can ask the System.Type if
> it is serializable by checking the IsSerializable (get_IsSerializable())
> property. Note that you'll have to do the serialization yourself,
> because the standard Object[In|Out]putStream implementation doesn't
> support serializing .NET object.
>
> Regards,
> Jeroen
>