End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed?

Question

I am trying to deserialize a stream but I always get this error "End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed"?

Here is the code:

        //Some code here
        BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
        return (myObject)b.Deserialize(s);//s---> is a Stream object that has been fill up with data some line over here

Any one have ideas?

Answer 1

Try to set the position to 0 of your stream and do not use your object but the object type.

        BinaryFormatter b = new BinaryFormatter();
        s.Position = 0;
        return (YourObjectType)b.Deserialize(s);

Answer 2

Make sure the serialization completed, and that the serialization type matches the de-serialization type (i.e., make sure you're serializing with a BinaryFormatter if you're de-serializing with one). Also, make sure that the stream you serialized to really finished serializing, with a Stream.Flush() or something to that effect.

Answer 3

I had the same exception thrown, until I added the [Serializable] tag to the class I was Serializing :)

Then it all worked perfectly.

Answer 4

s.Position = 0;

this is because you have to go to the start back to start copying data on the array!

Answer 5

In my case I used:

stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

after i serialized the stream, and before i deserialized the stream works charm. hope this helps!

Answer 6

I just encountered a similar error

It was about getting a different data type when serializing and deserializing. By mistake, when storing the data to mariadb I used MediumText and when getting the data I used Text this is why I got only part of the stream.

Just check if the data types are the same.