about serializable

[Tony Johansson]

Hello!

Below you can see two different ways to create a BinaryFormatter to use when
serialize object and collections.

I know that BinaryFormatter implement IFormatter that's why you can use
IFormatter in the way that is done here.

IFormatter serializer = new BinaryFormatter ();
BinaryFormatter serializer = new BinaryFormatter ();

Now to my question assume I'm only interested in method Serialize and
Deserialize which exist in IFormatter is it then
better to use IFormatter as compile type instead of BinaryFormatter .

So can I then say as a rule use the compile type that is most general and
can access the methods.

//Tony

[Marc Gravell]

Re: about serializable

In reality, you aren't likely to want to change the formatter and it
isn't something you often need to be strategy-specific / factory
based.

I can't think of much benefit here - I'd just code against
BinaryFormatter ; it is then clear what you are using... of course, if
you genuinely have a need to use multiple binary formatters (perhaps
you want to use "protocol buffers" ;-p) then code against IFormatter.

(note to self: implement IFormatter on protobuf-net...?)

Marc