Size of serialized Objects

Hello everybody,
When I serialize a object to a Byte Array the size of the Byte Array is not exactly the size of the object because of some meta data information. Is there any way there I can predict excatly the size that the Object will have when I serialize it? Of course I known the attributes size of this Object.
For example if I have an Object X with two attributes Integer A and B with 4 bytes each, I'd like to predict that the Byte Array of this serialized Object wil have 10 bytes (8 for the two attributes and 2 for meta data). Does anybody have an idea?
Thanks,
Bruno

Is
there any way there I can predict excatly the size
that the Object will have when I serialize it?Yes. You can serialize it to a byte array, then take the size of that. Then you can send the byte array instead of serializing the original object.
Basically this is something that's very unlikely to be useful. What are you trying to achieve and why do you think you need to know this information?
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