how to read in a list of custom configuration objects
- by Johnny
hi,
I want to implement Craig Andera's custom XML configuration handler in a slightly different scenario. What I want to be able to do is to read in a list of arbitrary length of custom objects defined as:
public class TextFileInfo
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string TextFilePath { get; set; }
public string XmlFilePath { get; set; }
}
I managed to replicate Craig's solution for one custom object but what if I want several?
Craig's deserialization code is:
public class XmlSerializerSectionHandler : IConfigurationSectionHandler
{
public object Create(object parent, object configContext, XmlNode section)
{
XPathNavigator nav = section.CreateNavigator();
string typename = (string)nav.Evaluate("string(@type)");
Type t = Type.GetType(typename);
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(t);
return ser.Deserialize(new XmlNodeReader(section));
}
}
I think I could do this if I could get
Type t = Type.GetType("System.Collections.Generic.List<TextFileInfo>")
to work but it throws
Could not load type 'System.Collections.Generic.List<Test1.TextFileInfo>' from assembly 'Test1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
