I'm trying to use ProtoBuf-NET in my project (it's mostly Silverlight 4 project).
I'm having difficulties serializing my Model collections, they all are defined like this:
private List<T> _itemsSet;
public IEnumerable<T> TSet
{
get {return _itemsSet;}
set {_itemsSet = value == null ? new List<T>() : new List<T>(value);}
}
public void AddT(T item)
{
//Do my logic here
_itemsSet.Add(item);
}
Update: First I can't serialize it - No serializer defined for type: System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable
1[MyType]`. Second I think I will be unable to desirialize it based on manual, and protobuf-net source code analyzes.
ProtoMember(1, OverwriteList=true)
doesn't work? Doesn't it suppose to overwrite collection and shouldn't care about Add<T>()
method? Why it just don't try to set this property to T[] or List<T>
or any set assignable to IEnumerable<T>
?public interface IReflectable{ object GetValue(FieldInfo field); void SetValue(FieldInfo field, object value);
}
to work with private fields. I have used such approach to work with private fields with Db4o: http://community.versant.com/Forums/tabid/98/aft/10881/Default.aspx
MyTypeCollection<T> : Collection<T>
?not at current, no; the type exposed must have (at a minimum) an Add
method. While I have no objection to investigating the possibility of an Add
outside the object itself, this is complicated since you are then looking at a different "primary" object (the sequence vs the container). However; if your parent object implemented IEnumerable<T>
(returning _itemsSet.GetEnumerator()
etc), then it would find the Add
automatically
I can't see the context here; however, I suspect that without the Add
it still isn't happy to consider it a list in the first place. I see the way you are going with that, though, and it is perhaps a way it could reason "I can use a List<T>
here)
It isn't something I've investigated, to be honest; so: no
The type exposed in the property must, as a minimum: implement IEnumerable
(although IEnumerable<T>
would be preferred), and expose an Add(T)
method. It doesn't have to be Collection<T>
/ List<T>
/ etc - simply: it must (at present) have some mechanism to add. IList<T>
would be a a pragmatic option, but I gather that isn't quite what you want.
Jonathan is right that a surrogate for the outer-class (the thing which has _itemsSet
, TSet
and AddT
) might also be an option.
If the outer-class only exists to have the collection and the add method, then just adding : IEnumerable<T>
and renaming AddT
to Add
would probably make it work.
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