dynamicbible/utils/DynamicBibleUtility/DataPreparation/XML.cs

using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace DynamicBible.DataPreparation.Models;

public static class XML
{
    public static bool SaveData(object o, string path)
    {
        File.WriteAllText(path, Serialize(o));

        return true;
    }

    public static bool SaveData(object o)
    {
        return SaveData(o, o.GetType().Name + ".xml");
    }

    public static T? GetData<T>(string path, EncodingType enc = EncodingType.ASCII)
    {
        return Deserialize<T>(File.ReadAllText(path), enc);
    }

    private static string Serialize(object o)
    {
        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());
        var ms = new MemoryStream();

        serializer.Serialize(ms, o);
        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
    }

    private static T? Deserialize<T>(string s, EncodingType enc = EncodingType.ASCII)
    {
        // the xmlserializer throws and handles an exception.   this is normal behavior. microsoft doesn't plan to fix this.
        //  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1127431/xmlserializer-giving-filenotfoundexception-at-constructor

        var deserializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        byte[] byteArray;
        if (enc == EncodingType.ASCII)
        {
            byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);
        }
        else
        {
            byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s);
        }

        var stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);

        return (T?)deserializer.Deserialize(stream);
    }
}

public enum EncodingType
{
    ASCII,
    UTF8,
}