Deserialization

In this lesson, we will Understand the concept of Deserialization with RestSharp in C#

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating an object from a sequence of bytes is called deserialization.

What is Serialization?

• Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes such as Json which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization.
• Deserialization Converting any encoding format to Objects

RestSharp includes deserializers to process XML and JSON. Upon receiving a response, RestClient chooses the correct deserializer to use based on the Content-Type returned by the server.

The built-in content types supported are:

• application/json - JsonDeserializer
• application/xml - XmlDeserializer
• text/json - JsonDeserializer
• text/xml - XmlDeserializer
• *+json - JsonDeserializer (content types using a Structured Suffix Syntax specifying JSON)
• *+xml - XmlDeserializer (content types using a Structured Suffix Syntax specifying XML)
• @*@ - XmlDeserializer (all other content types not specified)

Why it is needed?

• Serialize it to create the request body and send it as a JSON file
• Deserialize it into an object type that makes sense for the consumer, accesses the response content and check if the returned response is correct