ObjectSerialization-Net

A fast object graph binary serialization for .NET.

Features:

• support for serialization of classes, structures and primitives at root or type member level;
• support for serialization of derived types referenced by interface, base class or abstract class type;
• support for serialization of POCO objects;
• support for standard NonSerializedAttribute and dedicated NonSerializedBackendAttribute for automatic properties;
• support for serialization of classes without parameter-less constructor;
• support for serialization of arrays and collections implementing ICollection<T>;

Download

It is possible to download package using NuGet: PM> Install-Package ObjectSerialization-Net

or compile from sources available on Git: git clone git://github.com/Suremaker/ObjectSerialization-Net.git

Usage:

IObjectSerializer serializer = new ObjectSerializer();

MyClass myObject = new MyClass { Number = 32, Double = 3.14, Text = "test" };

byte[] serializedData = serializer.Serialize(myObject);

MyClass deserialized = serializer.Deserialize<MyClass>(serializedData);

Limitations:

• if multiple fields refers to the same object instance, after deserialization each would be referring to own copy of it;
• serialization of object with circular references is not supported (because of above);
• if class does not contain parameter-less constructor, it would be instantiated without any constructor call;
• data serialized on .NetFramework may not be properly or accurately deserialized on .NetCore / .Net5 runtime (and vice versa)

Performance and serialized data size:

The ObjectSerializer performs serialization/deserialization faster than standard BinaryFormatter and produces smaller data.

Solution contains ObjectSerialization.Performance project that allows to compare ObjectSerializer performance with other serializers like (BinaryFormatter, DataContractSerializer, Protobuf or Newton BSON).

The last performance comparison can be found here: Performance test results