How to unit test if my object is really serializable?

Question

I am using C# 2.0 with Nunit Test. I have some object that needs to be serialized. These objects are quite complex (inheritance at different levels and contains a lot of objects, events and delegates).

How can I create a Unit Test to be sure that my object is safely serializable?

Answer 1

Here is a generic way:

public static Stream Serialize(object source) {     IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();     Stream stream = new MemoryStream();     formatter.Serialize(stream, source);     return stream; }  public static T Deserialize<T>(Stream stream) {     IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();     stream.Position = 0;     return (T)formatter.Deserialize(stream); }  public static T Clone<T>(object source) {     return Deserialize<T>(Serialize(source)); }