Passing complex navigation parameters with MvvmCross ShowViewModel

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I believe there may be some gremlins in that previous answer – will log as an issue :/

There are other possible routes to achieve this type of complex serializable object navigation still using Json and overriding parts of the framework, but actually I think that it might be better to just use your own BaseViewModel’s to do serialization and deserialization – e.g. use serialization code like:

public class BaseViewModel
    : MvxViewModel
{
    private const string ParameterName = "parameter";

    protected void ShowViewModel<TViewModel>(object parameter)
        where TViewModel : IMvxViewModel
    {
        var text = Mvx.Resolve<IMvxJsonConverter>().SerializeObject(parameter);
        base.ShowViewModel<TViewModel>(new Dictionary<string, string>()
            {
                {ParameterName, text}
            });
    }
}

with deserialization like:

public abstract class BaseViewModel<TInit>
    : MvxViewModel
{
    public void Init(string parameter)
    {
        var deserialized = Mvx.Resolve<IMvxJsonConverter>().DeserializeObject<TInit>(parameter);
        RealInit(deserialized);
    }

    protected abstract void RealInit(TInit parameter);
}

then a viewModel like this:

public class FirstViewModel
    : BaseViewModel
{
    public IMvxCommand Go
    {
        get
        {
            return new MvxCommand(() =>
                {
                    var parameter = new A()
                        {
                            String1 = "Hello",
                            String2 = "World",
                            ComplexObject = new B()
                                {
                                    Double1 = 42.0,
                                    Double2 = -1
                                }
                        };
                    ShowViewModel<SecondViewModel>(parameter);
                });
        }
    }
}

can navigate to something like:

public class SecondViewModel
    : BaseViewModel<A>
{
    public A A { get; set; }

    protected override void RealInit(A parameter)
    {
        A = parameter;
    }
}

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