[Mono-bugs] [Bug 79278][Min] Changed - XmlSerializer requires default public constructor on Mono, but not on MS.NET

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Changed by robertj at gmx.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=79278

--- shadow/79278	2006-09-04 13:55:01.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/79278.tmp.2689	2006-09-04 18:29:15.000000000 -0400
@@ -71,6 +71,49 @@
 From ECMA 335 Page 40
 "a public constructor taking no arguments (the default constructor),"
 
 From ECMA 334 Page 128
 "All value types implicitly declare a public parameterless instance
 constructor called the default constructor."
+
+------- Additional Comments From robertj at gmx.net  2006-09-04 18:29 -------
+
+Since even the deserialization works, this is probably not
+an oversight/bug. It's rather a mistake in the documentation.
+
+Test case for both sides (it should print True\nTrue)
+
+// C# 2.0
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Text;
+using System.Xml.Serialization;
+
+public class Test {
+
+        public string Message = "hello";
+
+        private Test () 
+        {
+        }	
+	
+        static void Main()
+        {
+                Test a = new Test ();
+                Test b = Clone<Test> (a);
+                Console.WriteLine (a.Message == b.Message);
+                Console.WriteLine (!a.Equals (b));
+        } 
+
+        public static T Clone<T> (T data) 
+        {
+                StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder ();
+                XmlSerializer x = new XmlSerializer (data.GetType ());
+                TextWriter w = new StringWriter (b);
+                x.Serialize (w, data);
+                w.Close ();
+                x = new XmlSerializer (data.GetType ());
+                TextReader r = new StringReader (b.ToString());
+                return (T) x.Deserialize (r);
+        }
+}
+