could anybody tell me how to serialize and deserialize only part of array tools[] without Func delegate where:
public class Tool
{
public Tool()
{
lastUse = 1;
running = false;
}
public Func<int> action;
public bool running;
public int lastUse;
}
public static Tool[] tools = new Tool[] { new Tool(), new Tool(), new Tool(),new Tool()};
Thanks in advance for any responses.
One thing you can do is take advantage of the DataContract and DataMember attributes to only serialize the data you want.
[DataContract]
public class Tool
{
public Tool()
{
lastUse = 1;
running = false;
}
public Func<int> action;
[DataMember]
public bool running;
[DataMember]
public int lastUse;
}
The result without the attributes:
[{"action":null,"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"action":null,"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"action":null,"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"action":null,"running":false,"lastUse":1}]
With the attributes:
[{"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"running":false,"lastUse":1},{"running":false,"lastUse":1}]
This works with both Json.NET and DataContractJsonSerialize.
What I like about this approach is it let's you keep standard C# property naming conventions, but still output "correctly cased" JSON.
[DataMember(Name="last_use")]
public int LastUse { get; set; }
will output
{"last_use": 1}
