I am making a Winamp plugin with the single function of sending the details of the song being played over HTTP to a webpage.

It works like this: Winamp song event triggered -> check for new song -> publish to webpage using PubNub (C# API).

So far I got to the stage where everything works exactly as it is supposed to, except for the PubNub code which doesn't serialize the object I'm passing for publishing into JSON. All I keep getting in the PubNub console is a mere {} - an empty JSON object.

A little background on the project structure:

I am using Sharpamp which is a custom library that enables making Winamp plugins with C#. I am also using the PubNub C# API. The gen_notifier_cs project is the C++ plugin wrapper created by Sharpamp. notifier_cs is where all my code resides. The two other projects are self explanatory I assume. I have referenced the PubNub API in notifier_cs, and also have referenced Sharpamp in both notifier_cs and PubNub API.

So, the objects that need to get serialized are of a class Song as defined in Sharpamp:

    public class Song
{
    public string Title { get; internal set; }
    public string Artist { get; internal set; }
    public string Album { get; internal set; }
    public string Year { get; internal set; }
    public bool HasMetadata { get; internal set; }
    public string Filename { get; internal set; }
}

So let's say if I have a song object with song data in it, I would go pubnub.publish("winamp_pipe", song); to publish it and PubNub will automatically serialize the data into JSON. But that's just not working in my solution.

To test why it wasn't serializing, I copied that class to the example code file in the PubNub API. Visual Studio changed the class to this (notice the public Song() method):

    public class Song
{
    public Song()
    {
        return;
    }

    public string Album { get; set; }
    public string Artist { get; set; }
    public string Filename { get; set; }
    public bool HasMetadata { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public string Year { get; set; }
}

On the same example file I initiated a default song object with some values:

        Song song = new Song();
        song.Album = "albumname";
        song.Artist = "artistname";
        song.HasMetadata = true;
        song.Title = "songtitle";
        song.Year = "2012";

And published it: pubnub.publish("winamp_pipe", song); and it worked! I got the JSON object in the PubNub channel!

{"Album":"albumname","Artist":"artistname","Filename":null,"HasMetadata":true,"Title":"songtitle","Year":"2012"}

So, I tried replacing the "new" Song class with the original one defined in Sharpamp. I tried adding another class definition in the notifier_cs project but that clashes with the one in Sharpamp which I have to rely on. I have been trying so many things as far as I could come up with. Needless to say none prevailed. Still, all I get is an empty JSON object.

I have been pulling out my hair for the last day. I know this post is super long but I appreciate your input nonetheless.

Thanks in advance.