Creating a generic method to cache an entity

Question

I'm implementing the IEditableObject interface and I want to make a generic method that will know how to clone the object before BeginEdit().

I thought about reflection to iterate all public properties and copy them to a cached object.

Anyone have a better idea?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '09 at 06:16

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 public object Clone()
 {
     DataContractSerializer serializer = new DataContractSerializer(this.GetType());
     using (MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream())
     {
         serializer.WriteObject(memStream, this);
         memStream.Position = 0;
         return serializer.ReadObject(memStream);
     }
  }

Above is generic clone method,use that if you know your object is datacontract serializable, or if xml serializable you can use XmlSerializer

answered Jul 29 '09 at 06:16

Arsen Mkrtchyan

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and is there a generic method that will copy old values that i saved to the existing objec, i dont wanna change his reference!!! so what can i do if i want to roll him back? – Chen Kinnrot Jul 30 '09 at 13:17

Creating a generic method to cache an entity

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