I am trying to get around AJAX being disabled for our customers in Internet Explorer 6. I can override the JavaScript events and pass the serialized objects to the server via an iframe. This is working fine.

I now want to Deserialize the JavaScript object, and pass these parameters to a .NET method.

I have the name of the method as a string, and the JavaScript object.

Using Reflection I want to loop through the parameters of the method and Deserialize each JavaScript object to the correct type.

For example I want to achieve this:

Person opPerson = opSerializer.Deserialize<Person>(opInput);

but where Person is the data type of a parameter of a method, i.e. replace "Person" with a variable and please don't suggest a large switch statement!

The following example works for methods with multiple int and string parameters:

string zpService = Request["Service"].ToString();
string zpData = Request["_data"].ToString();
string[] zpDataSplit = zpData.Split(',');
string[] zpItemSplit;

DataService opDataService; // Data Service is a Web Service Class
opDataService = new DataService();

JavaScriptSerializer opSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

ParameterCollection opParamCollection = new ParameterCollection();
Parameter opParam;

ParameterInfo[] opParamInfo = opDataService.GetType().GetMethod(zpService).GetPa rameters();
int lpParamCount = opParamInfo.Length;

Dictionary<string, object> opDictionary;
opDictionary = (Dictionary<string, object>)opSerializer.DeserializeObject(zpData);

Object[] opObjects = new Object[opDictionary.Count];
int lpLoop = 0;

KeyValuePair<string,object> opKVP;

foreach (ParameterInfo opInfo in opParamInfo)
{
      opKVP = opDictionary[opInfo.Name];

      switch (opInfo.ParameterType.FullName)
      {
            case "System.String":
                  opObjects[lpLoop] = opKVP.Value.ToString();
                  break;

            default:
                  opObjects[lpLoop] = opKvp.Value;
                  break;
      }

      lpLoop ++;
}

opDataService.GetType().GetMethod(zpService).Invok e(opDataService, opObjects);

Is the "javascript object" actually an object from JS? Or is it a serialized .NET object?

In the case of opSerializer.Deserialize<Person>(opInput) the type parameter has to be a type, it can't be a parameter.

Is there a problem with the code you have posted or are you looking for an alternative to some of what you have there?

I suspect that if you are trying to translate a JS object into .NET you don't have much choice but to test each property by name. The JS object doesn't have strongly typed properties so you can't test by type. (Unless I'm missing something here.)

-Peter