Serialization

If you are using something like a queue, you will have a message type, and embedded in that message type you will sometimes see a serialized object. To get the object back, you will need to deserialize the message and then deserialize the embedded object.

If you serialize an already serialized string, the serializer will replace double quotes with \u0022. Here is a way to get back the familiar \".

There are so many ways to make and deserialize an HTTP GET request. In this post, I’ll show a few approaches.

If you invoke a Lambda function passing in value that deserializes to an enum and you are using the DefaultLambdaJsonSerializer it will fail. This post shows how to get around that problem in two ways.

If you invoke a Lambda function with a number represented as a string, and you are using the DefaultLambdaJsonSerializer it will fail. This post shows how to get around that problem in two ways.

This is one of those posts that I write for my future self. Here’s how to deserialize JSON from a file in C#. It also lists multiple ways to create the C# model from the JSON.

Sometimes a Lambda function can’t deserialize the JSON it receives because the model is wrong or the JSON is not as expected. This post shows how to output the raw JSON to CloudWatch logs so you fix the problem.

When deserializing JSON from a console application or library, you have to handle unusual casing of JSON key names, and numbers represented as strings yourself. This is done with a couple of serialization options.

I’ve been playing with Step Functions for a while and wanted to see if I could use them to orchestrate a bunch of API calls, processes the responses, make decisions, etc. This post shows how to combine a single Lambda, HttpClient, and Step Functions to achieve this.

Serializing a class to XML in C# is straightforward; most collections can be easily serialized also. Something like the following will work in most scenarios - 1public string GetSerializedString<T>(T objectToSerialize) 2{ 3 var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T)); 4 TextWriter textWriter = new StringWriter(); 5 6 var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.