Added non-generic interfaces and classes.

Author: electricessence

Open.Serialization/IDeserializeObjectAsync.cs

@@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ namespace Open.Serialization
 {
 	public interface IDeserializeObjectAsync
 	{
-		ValueTask<object?> DeserializeAsync<T>(Stream stream, Type type, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
+		ValueTask<object?> DeserializeAsync(Stream source, Type type, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
 	}
 }

Open.Serialization/IObjectSerializer.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+namespace Open.Serialization
+{
+	interface IObjectSerializer : ISerializeObject, IDeserializeObject
+	{
+	}
+
+	interface IAsyncObjectSerializer : ISerializeObjectAsync, IDeserializeObjectAsync
+	{
+	}
+}

Open.Serialization/ISerializeObject.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+using System;
+
+namespace Open.Serialization
+{
+	interface ISerializeObject
+	{
+		string? Serialize(object? item, Type type);
+	}
+}

Open.Serialization/ISerializeObjectAsync.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Open.Serialization
+{
+	interface ISerializeObjectAsync
+	{
+		ValueTask SerializeAsync(Stream target, object? item, Type type, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
+	}
+}

Open.Serialization/ObjectSerializerBase.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Threading;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+
+namespace Open.Serialization
+{
+	public abstract class ObjectSerializerBase : IObjectSerializer, IAsyncObjectSerializer
+	{
+		public abstract string? Serialize(object? item, Type type);
+		public abstract object? Deserialize(string? value, Type type);
+
+		public virtual async ValueTask SerializeAsync(Stream target, object? item, Type type, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+		{
+			var text = Serialize(item, type);
+			using var writer = new StreamWriter(target);
+			await writer.WriteAsync(text).ConfigureAwait(false);
+		}
+
+		public async virtual ValueTask<object?> DeserializeAsync(Stream source, Type type, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+		{
+			string text;
+			using (var reader = new StreamReader(source))
+				text = await reader.ReadToEndAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
+			return Deserialize(text, type);
+		}
+	}
+}

Open.Serialization/Open.Serialization.csproj

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Part of the "Open" set of libraries.
 		<RepositoryUrl>https://github.com/electricessence/Open.Serialization</RepositoryUrl>
 		<RepositoryType>git</RepositoryType>
 		<PackageTags>serialization json</PackageTags>
-		<Version>1.4.0</Version>
+		<Version>1.5.0</Version>
 		<Nullable>enable</Nullable>
 		<PackageReleaseNotes>Improved nullable reference support.  FxCop inspections and fixes.</PackageReleaseNotes>
 	</PropertyGroup>