C＃-BinaryFormatter的人类可读序列化替代方案

Question

I have an object serialized via

BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter("filename");
formatter.Serialize(writer.BaseStream, the_object);
writer.Close();

Is there a way to view it in a more understandable form, for example, in json? Thanks

Answer 1

Using Json.NET :

string serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(the_object);

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To deserialize it, you can either specify the object's type via generics:

YourEntity deserializedObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<YourEntity>(serialized);

Or you can take advantage of dynamic (Requires C# 4.0 or newer):

dynamic deserializedObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(serialized);

Answer 2

I believe that the only way to "view" a serialized object in a particular format is to serialize it into that form first. You are not going to be able to take a binary-serialized object and look at it in JSON, unless you want to write a ton of code to transform a binary object to JSON. But that would be a complete waste of time.

If the data is already serialized in binary, then deserialize it into class objects and then re-serialize it into JSON or XML. Then you can open those files and understand what the contents are.