Callbacks to get information about (de)serialized types

NetSerializer/Settings.cs

@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@ namespace NetSerializer
 {
 	public class Settings
 	{
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Gets called when an object is going to be deserialized.
+		/// </summary>
+		public Action<uint> BeforeDeserializingObjectWithTypeId;
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Gets called when an object is going to be serialized.
+		/// </summary>
+		public Action<Type> BeforeSerializingObjectOfType;
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Array of custom TypeSerializers
 		/// </summary>

NetSerializer/TypeSerializers/ObjectSerializer.cs

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ public static void Serialize(Serializer serializer, Stream stream, object ob)
 
 			var type = ob.GetType();
 
+			serializer.Settings.BeforeSerializingObjectOfType?.Invoke(type);
+
 			SerializeDelegate<object> del;
 
 			uint id = serializer.GetTypeIdAndSerializer(type, out del);
@@ -75,6 +77,8 @@ public static void Deserialize(Serializer serializer, Stream stream, out object
 				ob = new object();
 				return;
 			}
+
+			serializer.Settings.BeforeDeserializingObjectWithTypeId?.Invoke(id);
 
 			var del = serializer.GetDeserializeTrampolineFromId(id);
 			del(serializer, stream, out ob);

Test/Program.cs

@@ -41,6 +41,22 @@ static void Main(string[] args)
 
 			foreach (var thread in threads)
 				thread.Join();
+
+			Console.WriteLine();
+			Console.WriteLine("Serialized objects of types:");
+			foreach (var type in Tester.SerializedTypes.OrderBy(x => x.FullName))
+			{
+				Console.WriteLine(type.FullName);
+			}
+
+			Console.WriteLine();
+			Console.WriteLine("Deserialized objects with type ids:");
+			foreach (var id in Tester.DeserializedTypeIds.OrderBy(x => x))
+			{
+				Console.WriteLine(id);
+			}
+
+			Console.ReadKey();
 		}
 
 		static bool ParseArgs(string[] args)

Test/Tester.cs

@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ namespace Test
 {
 	class Tester
 	{
+		private static HashSet<Type> m_serializedTypes = new HashSet<Type>();
+
+		private static HashSet<uint> m_deserializedTypeIds = new HashSet<uint>();
+
+		public static IEnumerable<Type> SerializedTypes => m_serializedTypes;
+
+		public static IEnumerable<uint> DeserializedTypeIds => m_deserializedTypeIds;
+
 		public static NS.Serializer CreateSerializer()
 		{
 			var types = GetKnownTypes().ToArray();
@@ -18,6 +26,8 @@ public static NS.Serializer CreateSerializer()
 			var settings = new NS.Settings()
 			{
 				CustomTypeSerializers = new NS.ITypeSerializer[] { new TriDimArrayCustomSerializer() },
+				BeforeSerializingObjectOfType = type => m_serializedTypes.Add(type),
+				BeforeDeserializingObjectWithTypeId = id => m_deserializedTypeIds.Add(id)
 			};
 
 			var serializer = new NS.Serializer(types, settings);