using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
 
namespace Hamrick {
  /// <summary>
  /// Basic utility class for serializing with XML
  /// </summary>
  public class XmlWrapper {
    private XmlWrapper() { }
 
    /// <summary> Convert an XML string into a root object </summary>
    public static object Deserialize( string xml, Type objType ) {
      try {
        XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer( objType );
 
        using ( StringReader stream = new StringReader( xml ) ) {
          return xs.Deserialize( stream );
        }
      } catch {
        return null;
      }
    }
 
    /// <summary> Convert a root object into an XML string </summary>
    public static string Serialize( object obj, Type objType ) {
      try {
        using ( MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream() ) {
          using ( StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter( ms, Encoding.UTF8 ) ){
            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer( objType );
 
            xs.Serialize( writer, obj );
 
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString( ms.ToArray() ).Trim();
          }
        }
      } catch {
        return string.Empty;
      }
    }
  }
}